• hadesflames@vlemmy.netEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Funny, take an upvote

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

    • EN20@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • azimir@lemmy.ml
        2·
        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.