I think there are plenty of real-world cases that can be studied here: Ruby comes to mind, and the early days of JavaScript. Even though most of it isn't statef

I think there are plenty of real-world cases that can be studied here: Ruby comes to mind, and the early days of JavaScript. Even though most of it isn't stateful, this has a lot of the same issues as global variables. Personal answer here is a solid "yes". I don't think any of the ideas in the article help much.