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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: Declaring the same global variable multiple times
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Stefan Ram wrote:

> Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> writes:
>> Instead of that
> 
>   (that = a global)
> 
>>                you may create singleton which can store your data in a 
>> property and add method to get/set values.
>> Example:
>> var example = {
>>     sharedVariable: undefined,
> 
>   And »example« is what? Not a global?

Basically, `example` is a global, but the namespace pattern helps to
*reduce* the number of globals.  To *avoid* globals, IIFEs or the module
pattern might be more appropriate.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker