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My experience has been that shitty code tends to be shitty because it accesses "magic global state," so it's hard to coral it into a single module almost by def
by foobarian 11y ago
My experience has been that shitty code tends to be shitty because it accesses "magic global state," so it's hard to coral it into a single module almost by definition. This happens usually because of rushed deadlines; it's often hard to plumb through an extra parameter if there are many touchpoints or a lot of tests to fix, and easier to just stuff something into a global variable and ship the code.
- eru 11y agoThat's why a language that forbids magic global state (or at least makes you clearly tag every tiny instance of it) can be so useful.