this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Funny, take an upvote

But honestly, I have not used global variable in over a decade. It's completely unnecessary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more difficult when you work with a huge legacy code base that is full of them and you have to do days of work in oder to rewrite and test everything rather then just use one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Once the code has given into the temptation, every generation must bear the cost of those sins.

Yeah, I hear you on being handed the legacy base where someone in days of yore gave into the global temptation. Trying to refactor that kind of thing can take forever and it's often very brittle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Let’s call it “singleton”, then it’s ok.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

CONSTANTS: oh yes daddy, don't stop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

image source ? uhh for a friend