[Greasemonkey] Script scoping

Jeremy Dunck jdunck at gmail.com
Mon May 2 14:18:28 EDT 2005


On 5/2/05, Aaron Boodman <zboogs at gmail.com> wrote:
> We can remove this; I'm not married to it.
> 
> The main reason I added it was to make GM_* functions local to user
> scripts, but I can probably (?) think of another way to accomplish
> that. Mark would have to revise his book.

I think that benefit is worthwhile.  I can't think of another way to do it.

> It seems to be causing lots of problems and gotchas.

Isn't this just a bump due to the change, which will become part of
the landscape when people are used to it?

I like the idea of script includes anyway, and that would require some
enhancement to accomplish cleanly, no matter what we do with this
scoping thing.

Time for a vote, folks.  :)


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