Stuff with globals and templates and throw in some

I'm planning on working on a puzzle game for awhile, because...well...I feel like working on a puzzle game. Plus I have a really cool idea for what it's going to play like.

But that isn't exactly why I'm posting this entry, well other than the fact that I like to make it a daily event. I wanted to share my new code for storing global variables. I'm pretty sure this is a common method. Also, I haven't actually compiled this, so it might have some errors. It is in this class:

template <class T>class Globals{    private:        std::map globals;    public:        void set(std::string key, T value) { globals[key] = value; }        T get(std::string key) { return globals[key]; }        std::map getList() { return globals; }};

This class is so simplistic I'm quite sure it has to already be used.

So basically, you can do this:

Globals<int> numbers;// Create some numbersnumbers.set("x", 5);numbers.set("y", 7);numbers.set("z", 10);// Print the value of xstd::cout << "x is: " << numbers.get("x") << std::endl;// Print all the numbersfor(std::mapint>::iterator i = numbers.getList().begin(); i != numbers.getList().end(); i++)    std::cout << i->first << " = " << i->second << endl;

This system is good because you can load the variables from a file.

I'm trying out STL maps for alot of different tasks and they seem to work well so far.

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