Global array

[Paul via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 21:35:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:56:00PM +0000, Paul via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> Is there any merit (or folly!) in storing a large array, that
>> frequently needs to be accessed globally, within a class like 
>> so:
>> 
>> public class classMap{
>> 	
>> 	public static int[MAPSIZE][MAPSIZE] map;
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> Or is there a proper 'D' way to do this?
> [...]
>
> Why do you need to wrap it inside a class? Why not just put it 
> in
> module-global scope, since it's public anyway?
>
>
> T

I guess I'm looking for the correct method to create a globally 
accessible bunch of data (basically the program state) with 
associated functions while trying to provide some measure of 
safety compared to ordinary global variables. I suppose putting 
them in the same module with that array in the global namespace 
is no different.