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Antiperl (Score:2)

by ziggy (25)

The 16000 line program no longer has any globals (at least no non-constant globals).

I was just thinking about that particular antipattern today. I'm dealing with code like this:
my $DB = 'db'; my $PARAM = 'param';
$obj->{$DB}->{$PARAM} = $FOO;
Now, obviously that's bad style, but why is it bad style? Then it struck me that it's a perversion of an old FORTRAN/C meme about peppering constant values around as bad style. Sure, it helps to put PI into a [constant] variable so that you locali
Sounds like a little project I once worked on ... (Score:1)

by pudge (1)

... called Slash. :-) It acutally wasn't as bad as its reputation. There were just a few globals, and a bunch of undeclared variables, but only a handful of conflicts. But there were a lot of lines of code to go through.