[JASS] What are HandleVars?

[Sware]

Can someone point me in the direction of a URL or explain themselves indepth on what handleVars are? What you do with them and/how what they are used for?

I'm learning vJass and it seems to use a lot of handlevars. The more I know the better.

 

[GhostWolf]

Handlevars was a system created by Kattana to attach variables to handles.
Handles are timers, units, and some other things (check blizzard.j or common.j and you'll see them all).

vJass actually lets you attach them differently, if I'm not wrong, in a more efficient and stable way.

Here is a more efficient way to pass locals with vJass, but it's only good for fast periodic things, such as jumps/knockbacks.

A nice tutorial on moving from Handlevars to vJass (also explains a lot of vJass's features).

Can't really find any other tutorials :/

 

[PurplePoot]

LHV (Local Handle Variables), as in the functions made by KaTTaNa, should be avoided now that sanely usable methods with NewGen are available, even when considering only free global declaration.