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- 2Retaining information about the original raiser is clearly a leaking abstraction.Basilevs– Basilevs2024-06-24 18:03:52 +00:00Commented Jun 24, 2024 at 18:03
- I think in questions of "good practice" you have to take some account of popular usage. If Microsoft and all HTML use the pattern for the last 30 years, that's quite a lot of opinion on the "its good" side.Ewan– Ewan2024-06-24 21:27:38 +00:00Commented Jun 24, 2024 at 21:27
- There are plenty of older design flaws around. Microsoft is known for strong backward compatibility, they did worse hacks to adhere to it. Do not mistake perseverance for wisdom.Basilevs– Basilevs2024-06-24 22:08:41 +00:00Commented Jun 24, 2024 at 22:08
- 2Sure, I'm not saying its "good" cos MS does it. But it solves a problem and is a common (ubiquitous?) pattern. Can we really say its bad practice?Ewan– Ewan2024-06-25 08:06:18 +00:00Commented Jun 25, 2024 at 8:06
- 1There is no problem is solves. Not since C. See my answer. Yes, propagating the original raiser in high-level languages is a bad practice. (I'm talking about C# and the like, not sure about HTML from your example, there is no "propagation" there).Basilevs– Basilevs2024-06-25 08:25:14 +00:00Commented Jun 25, 2024 at 8:25
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