Noob Global Scope

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Hi clever people

Ive been looking though the code archives and tutorials and Ive noticed something.

Sometimes variables at Global scope are declared as "Local"

Now thinking about this logicaly I could assume that Globals declared Variable are "Static" across all the instances of the program that are running, however Im nearly sure that BMax doesnt work like that.

Or I could assume that in this situation

#Label
Global x:int =0
X:+1
Print x
Goto Label

The decleration of X is static, and so the output would be 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc whereas

#Label
Local x:int =0
X:+1
Print x
Goto Label

X would be reset to 0, so the output would be 1,1,1,1,1

Which they do ;) Edit: GLobal 1,2,3,4,5 Local 1,1,1,1,1,1
So Ive seen for myself that there is a differnce between Local at Global Scope, and Global at Global Scope. (A difference that Ive never seen before)

However, although Its useful, I dont really use this feature (Well I do in Functions and the like, but not at global scope Cos I didnt know it was there), so Im willing to Local or Global Global scope variable. But are there any other differences that Im unaware of? Like ,speed or Optimisation etc.