hunting for globals that shouldn't be

[TheDarkPrincess]

I can run atoms-family and get a list of all symbols, and I have a lisp which searchs through all my lisp files to find something.  but I'm wondering if anyone has built a parser that skips through a function and finds all the variables and determines if any are global?   Does vlide do something like this?

TDP

[Anonymous]

if you use the check edit window button in the vlide it will list all the functions and their global variables in the build output window

eg

function is LOAD_LT -> global vars are FNAME and PATH

; === Top statistic:
; Global variables: (FNAME PATH)
; Function definition (with number of arguments): ((LOAD_LT . 0))
; Check done.

[stevor]

1. The Vlide may do what you want, or so  implied here:

http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2006/07/vlisp-variables.html

only if the "Report statistics during syntax checking" box is checked.

2. In our small group, we use the '*' within a global variable to make them more findable.

And even with that convention, our  parser to find local variables within the text of a DEFUN  was  massive, and undependable.

And the inadvertent global is the worst: making values change improperly because they were reset somewhere else.

Now we belong to the school of minimum globals.

 .

[TheDarkPrincess]

thanks for the reply.  I use very few globals - and most of mine store data in an assoc list.   I've found a few functions that are rather large where I've missed setting a couple of variables to local....and with 90,000+ loines of code well I want to make a good check.  such a parser must be very elegantly written or it becomes unwieldy and bugggy....

thanks for your help on the vlide thing...

Jamie