Is it a bad idea to use global objects like this?

[magicinmath]

The script I am thinking about has about 300 strings of data in text or numbers, which need to be accessible to about 5 different hotkey programs, which all share a function but have different instructions and input to the function. The script would be running for about 8 hours at a time.

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global data

data:=["string of data1","string of data 2", .... "string of data n"]

some_function_that_uses_data(input)
{
	; some instructions that use data and %input%
}

F1::
{
	; some instructions that define %input%
	
	some_function_that_uses_data(input)
	
	; some other instructions that use data
	
	return
}

F2::
{
	; some instructions that define %input%
	
	some_function_that_uses_data(input)
	
	; some other instructions that use data
	
	return
}

[Soft]

I don't think it's a bad idea, as long as it's not conflicting with other codes.
Defining super global variable/object can be useful on certain circumstances.