What is better option than using 'global' ?

Hello all, In GUI, I am using plenty of global variables from which the performance gets influenced . I want to know what are the other alternatives of that and how to implement those programmatically ??

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

The MATLAB documentation covers this quite comprehensively:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/share-data-between-workspaces.html

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_guis/share-data-among-callbacks.html

Globals are an unreliable way to pass values, and should be avoided. You will find lots of explanations why:

http://blogs.mathworks.com/videos/2010/03/08/top-10-matlab-code-practices-that-make-me-cry/

http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#Are_global_variables_bad.3F

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/51946-systematic-do-not-use-global-don-t-use-eval