Timeline for Parametrize methods vs global variables
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| Apr 16, 2017 at 9:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/853536381099966464 | ||
| Apr 15, 2017 at 14:14 | vote | accept | AFP_555 | ||
| Apr 15, 2017 at 14:10 | comment | added | AFP_555 | @BenCottrell Yes! This wouldn't have happened to me if I was using Java or Python. Classes allow to encapsulate in instances what in Javascript would be all over the global environment. First time using Javascript, it is a good thing I learned this now. | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 12:36 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 8:26 | answer | added | Ewan | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 0:31 | comment | added | Ben Cottrell | Consider treating the structure of your JavaScript code as you would in other languages (such as those which use "real" classes). Some useful links on this related question on SO: stackoverflow.com/questions/927651/… | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 22:26 | comment | added | AFP_555 | @KilianFoth Thanks. Could you please elaborate with some code so I can check the answer? | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 22:20 | comment | added | Kilian Foth | A common remedy when you find yourself passing arguments many layers deep is to create a method object: an object of a new class whose methods correspond to the functions that pass the parameters along. The parameters can then become variables local to the object, and its methods need not pass along the values anymore. | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 21:32 | comment | added | AFP_555 | Avoid it like the plague. Understood. Could you elaborate a little more on "you haven't broken the problem up correctly". I understand the general idea but I can't come up with an example or something to reeeally understand it. | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 21:26 | history | edited | AFP_555 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 184 characters in body |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 21:25 | comment | added | mgw854 | Typically, if you're passing variables very deeply, you haven't broken the problem up correctly. As for global variables driving state elsewhere in the system, avoid it like the plague. It's impossible to manage at a certain point, and you will find things breaking randomly because some state is mutated by a function that you weren't expecting randomly. | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 21:22 | history | asked | AFP_555 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |