If the discussion here is meant to be solely about JavaScript, then I'll happily consider all my comments in this thread to be obsolete, since I don't have part

If the discussion here is meant to be solely about JavaScript, then I'll happily consider all my comments in this thread to be obsolete, since I don't have particularly strong opinions about that language since I don't use it a lot. I was under the impression that many people here were discussing the usage of global variables more generally, though.