# \_global good or bad?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-global-good-or-bad/103339>\
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**Created:** [March 4, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-global-good-or-bad/103339 "2004-03-04T06:56:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![hzane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a8b319/32.png) [@hzane](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hzane)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-global-good-or-bad/103339/1 "2004-03-04T06:56:46Z")

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Hello all, I recently read an article about prefacing your variable w/ \_global.

And I think it rocks!!!  
Why is this practice taboo?  
Why do so many tutorials insist you remember the scope of every movie clip?

It seems to me that memory space is memory space.

What are your thoughts?  
Where is the drawback to just making \_global standard practice?

cheerios,  
-hz