I wrote this answer back in ’09 when Android was relatively new, and there were many not well established areas in Android development. I have added a long addendum at the bottom of this post, addressing some criticism, and detailing a philosophical disagreement I have with the use of Singletons rather than subclassing Application. Read … Read more
The delete operator removes a property from an object. It cannot remove a variable. So the answer to the question depends on how the global variable or property is defined. (1) If it is created with var, it cannot be deleted. For example: var g_a = 1; //create with var, g_a is a variable delete … Read more
Using extern is only of relevance when the program you’re building consists of multiple source files linked together, where some of the variables defined, for example, in source file file1.c need to be referenced in other source files, such as file2.c. It is important to understand the difference between defining a variable and declaring a … Read more
You can use a global variable within other functions by declaring it as global within each function that assigns a value to it: globvar = 0 def set_globvar_to_one(): global globvar # Needed to modify global copy of globvar globvar = 1 def print_globvar(): print(globvar) # No need for global declaration to read value of globvar … Read more