>>I'm not much of a theorist, and maybe we're saying the same thing differently, but it seems to me that public variables should be used only to share information between applications. If I want to create a variable which is scoped to the entire application, it would be declared Private in the main program.
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>You can't share variables between applications, at least not by just declare them PUBLIC.

Sure you can.

DO MyOtherApp.app