API setglobal

getglobal and setglobal are deprecated and replaced with _G[]. Their functionality will be removed from the game at a future date. Change all references of getglobal and setglobal:

var = getglobal(varName)       --getglobal deprecated var = _G[varName]              --new syntax to get a global

setglobal(otherName, otherVar) --setglobal deprecated _G[otherName] = otherVar       --new syntax to set a global

Set a global variable, from a string. setglobal( "globalName", value )

Arguments

 * ("globalName", value)


 * globalName : String - Name of the global you want to change.
 * value : Any - Value you want to set the global to.

Returns

 * Always returns nil.

Example
/script setglobal( "MyVariable", 1234 )

Result
MyVariable = 1234

Details
As of the introduction of getfenv into the API, setglobal and getglobal are somewhat superfluous. You can always do something along the lines of: local _G = getfenv local prevval = _G["MyVariable"]  -- "getglobal" _G["MyVariable"] = 1234           -- "setglobal" Function calls always cost some overhead, so if a large number of getglobal calls are being made, the getfenv table will be a faster route. Note that for few or infrequent calls the performance gain of this method is negligible.