Why some people say Local Variables are bad...

[Ray.R]

😉 still made the bad list LOL!! 

Let's not encourage bad programming... 😉

LOL!

[altenbach]

At least his main program was very streamlined. 😄

[Ray.R]

ROFL!!!  LOL!! 😄

[RayFarmer]

Ray,

Actually, it would be difficuilt to get the contents of control or indicator to jump the loop boundarys unless you did use a local. eg using a Button to stop several while loops.

On the other hand, it's just a bad example.

RayF

[Ray.R]

Hi RayF,

I used to program that way... using Locals...  And I had some strange behaviors to clean up after the code ... grew...

I now pass info using other methods that are more suitable for scalability..  I know it makes the code bigger at the beginning, but it is more robust.

As a matter of fact, I now implement an architecture that often avoids having two loops..  I prefer that.  The second loop is often not necessary.

RayR

[Ray.R]

Nothing serious with the following example..  Simple solution was to use a shift register.

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Message Edited by JoeLabView on 06-23-2008 07:59 PM

[Ray.R]

Someone is afraid of wiring directly...  This is probably more a Goldberg.

Actually, why is it needed if the value is almost immediately reset (it the sweep was complete)?   The only thing between setting the sweep complete value and resetting it is writing to a spreadsheet which should be relatively quick..

Maybe a bad example all together of Local abuse...  I just don't see why sweep complete is needed at all..  😮

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Message Edited by JoeLabView on 07-01-2008 02:33 PM

[Ray.R]

We're off to the races...

From:  http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=338085

Message Edited by JoeLabView on 07-07-2008 08:23 AM

[Ben]

The only race condition I see is the error cluster for motor vs the time delay.

Can you spot another?

Ben

[JeffOverton]

I also find the unnamed subvi with one output and no inputs a bit confusing