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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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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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Global Variables State Management
Background: 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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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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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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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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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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Using class attributes as globals in Python - is there a catch?
I have found myself in the habit of using code like this. class glb: "just for holding globals" args = None # from argparse conf = None # from configparser def main(): ......
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