Using salabim without global variables

[jonglezb]

First of all, thank you for this very nice package, it is a real pleasure to write simulations with salabim!

I am only wondering how to avoid using global variables for the simulation state (queues, etc).

All examples from the documentation (along with all the examples I looked at in the git repo) use a pattern like the following:

class MyObject(sim.Component):
    ...
    queue.enter(...)

queue = sim.Queue("myqueue")
obj = MyObject()
env.run()

That is, important state objects are created in the global context, and they are accessed directly by components.

This prevents two usages:

• setup and run the simulation in a function, so that I could easily run several simulations in a row with different parameters
• separate the components and the simulation setup in different source files

What would be the best way to make these state objects available to components? Put everything in a big class?

[salabim]

Just attach these variables to env, like env.queue ...