Hiya Dwayne,

Many years ago, I chose Pascal. I now wish I had chosen C instead. Would have been making much better money by now. But, pascal or Delphi, is also an OOP environment. All that Inheritance and Polymorphism stuff was so confusing, for so long. Didn't think I'd ever get a handle on it. But eventually it did make sense.

Fortunately, OOP will never be a part of PBP. I can just image the posts on here if it was.

As for the PBP variables, yes, they are all global. But, it's not mandatory that they are all assigned their locations by PBP. It's possible to create "Placeholders" for PBP variables. That way PBP can go ahead and compile the program, even though it doesn't know where the variables will be, and then the actual locations can be determined at the assembly level, by your code. Any variables that aren't used in the program, don't need to be assigned a location since there's no code that will be trying to use them.

It's not quite "Local Variables", but it does help when making code that may, or may not be used in any given program. So, much like the "Self-Optimizing" macro's, the variables are optimized by the routine that might be using them.
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