It's hard to prove a negative (that's it's not needed). Perhaps you could offer a counter example (an example that it is needed) that would disprove what I said? I can't come up with any.

Update: I misread, or rather forgot what I read by the time I composed my answer. (Still sleepy.)

I'm sure I don't need to tell you the issues regarding the use of global variables, so perhaps you are suggesting small scripts should use global variables. I wouldn't mind if you explained that, because I don't follow your line of reasoning either.

Given two possibilities, one that could give you problems, and one equally simple and clear but without the baggage, why would you pick the former?

In reply to Re^3: Inserting a file inside of another by ikegami
in thread Inserting a file inside of another by Anonymous Monk

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