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I think it is best practice to use $



Well I suppose that's what's good about opinions, eveyone has one. I personally disagree with the idea of BEST PRACTICE

As for your example I do something like this



Break On
Dim $SO,$Pause
$SO=SetOption('Explicit','On')
$SO=SetOption('NoVarsInStrings','On')
$SO=SetOption('NoMacrosInStrings','On')


;run some code stuff

Get $Pause




To me that is VERY clear what it's being used for. Finding a bunch of $ all over the place in a large script and trying to fix or update the code is a nightmare.