AVS 2.8b1! :)

[justin]

OK well here is my thinking:

• Making the arrays accessed via a function rather than a new language syntax is a lot easier (I know this ultimately doesnt matter that much to everybody else, but it changes it from a quicky day project to a much larger project that could potentially break a lot of other shit)
• Global variables that have names may be possible, but create a whole host of memory management issues -- i.e. if every preset creates its own global variables, they stay around forever? Garbage collection? See below.
• Arrays are a lot easier to keep local (not global) for the above reason.
• Otherwise, we'd have to do some sophisticated garbage collection-type things. Which takes time to implement, and lots of testing before we could really be serious about putting this in the main distribution.

So yes, we could go completely overhaul shit. But ultimately that'll just mean that it'll take tons of time and break shit and be a big pain in the ass. :/ I don't know what the best thing to do is...

-J