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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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] 3 points 2 years 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] 7 points 2 years 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] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

CONSTANTS: oh yes daddy, don't stop

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Crackhappy 4 points 2 years ago

Goddamnit, that made me laugh entirely too hard.

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

image source ? uhh for a friend

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