How to declare a global variable that could be used in the entire program

Question

I have a variable that I would like to use in all my classes without needing to pass it to the class constructor every time I would like to use it. How would I accomplish th

Answer 1

If you're not going to use the Singleton pattern as Lyndsey suggests, then at least use a global function (inside a namespace) to access the variable. This will give you more flexibily in how you manage that global entity.

// mymodule.h
namespace mynamespace // prevents polluting the global namespace
{
   extern int getGlobalVariable();
}

// mymodule.cpp
namespace mynamespace
{
   int myGlobalVariable = 42;

   int getGlobalVariable()
   {
      return myGlobalVariable;
   }
}