From: schneiderp_REMOVETHIS@gmx.net   
      
   Hi,   
      
   On 04.12.2012 12:40, goran.pusic@googlemail.com wrote:   
      
   > There is no such thing as "global state",   
   > except in simplest of programs.   
      
   A bold statement. Can you briefly elaborate? I'd say   
   that almost *all* C++ programs have global state:   
      
   In my opinion every "normal" program on "standard"   
   machines has implicit global state   
   (in form of general system ressources   
   like memory, word size, byte sex, CPU load and cores   
   as well as the state of the stack,   
   the instruction pointer etc.),   
   and C++ programs specifically have automatically   
   global state as soon as you link to the   
   C++ libraries or just run in a C++ runtime environment   
   (e.g. command line params, standard streams).   
      
   It seems natural that the overall runtime "environment"   
   (in a broad sense) of a program is accessible from   
   anywhere in a program. (One may, for design and   
   maintainability, choose not to access it, of course,   
   but one can).   
      
   And only then are we talking about explicit global state   
   (global resources, configurations, whatever)   
   which may or may not be legitimate but surely do exist   
   in many programs.   
      
   So I'm (genuinely) curious what made you say that.   
      
   Regards, Peter   
      
      
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