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Are there any functional approaches, to have variables that feel global (no need to pass them around explicitly), yet are local to an instance?
I'm developing a library in JavaScript (TypeScript, actually) which is split into several modules. It's meant to run both on the web and in non-web environments like Node.js.
The library is meant to ...
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Global State, How To Do IT?
im kind of a newbie so take me easy
i face a problem every time i make a project
specially Client projects, which is Global State i always struggle to do it
for example, here is the structure of one ...
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In "disadvantages of global states", what is the relationship between "starting state is changed" and "unpredictable"?
According to Why is Global State so Evil?, I know there are already many answers about why is "global states" bad. However, I'm not raising new reasons to oppose that. Instead, the currently ...
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Why is global state hard to test? Doesn't setting the global state at the beginning of each test solve the problem?
According to Why is Global State so Evil?, I know one of the disadvantages of "global state" is that it makes code "harder to test". I do not disagree with this, but what I don't ...
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Why is "hidden dependency" (required things not in parameter list directly) a disadvantage of "global variables", but not in "preserve whole object"?
According to https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/200092, as I know, "preserve whole object" is a refactor method that passes the whole object instead of required parameters only, ...
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Global Variables State Management
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I am working in a Java environment using Spring Boot, where I often encounter scenarios where global variable state management is critical, especially within singleton services. I have ...
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Use of environment variable or appsettings as a counter, good or bad practice [closed]
I'm wondering if it's bad practice to have a variable in a webserver which counts the amount of incoming requests and put it in an environment variable.
In C# for example you have System.Configuration....
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Why does "a consistent, understandable interface" differentiates database from global states?
According to some answers of How are globals any different from a database? that explains how database is different from global state:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/319389
https://...
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Does turn "global state" into "passing parameter" increase the whole system coupling or not?
As far as I know, coupling is about counting number of other classes in a class, so for the following program that emulates a UI program that shows "WelcomePage" at start and also pops a ...
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Why blaming "global state", instead of my user requirements, makes program state unpredictable?
According to Why is Global State so Evil?, I know I should not allow the existence of global state, one of the reasons is so called "it makes program state unpredictable".
However, I'm not ...
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Should I use a global logging variable?
Over and over again we're told, "globals are bad" and with good reason. However, I'm working with a logger that needs to be accessible everywhere in the program. Why shouldn't I create a ...
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Passing arrays as global variables instead of pointers in C
I'm required to write the Low-Level Requirements of a Software Component which shall perform signal processing over arrays of 200k elements of integers/floats which lives in the main memory of the ...
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Why is Dependency Injection called "alternative of global state"?I think global state still exists
According to Why is Global State so Evil?, I believe we should avoid global state, so suppose I have an App that count user clicks in all pages like it:
public class GlobalState{
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How to initialize the same global resources from multiple modules independently?
I encountered the following situation: I have two modules, TokenService and Wifi which are initialized from main(). The modules themselves don't know of the existence of each other and function ...
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How to implement a counter without global state?
I have read many blogs and stack exchange posts about global state (usually) being bad practice. I'm now trying to avoid this where possible in my code, but I'm running into a case where I don't know ...
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