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[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago

Is it really tempting for people? They've given me too many headaches when I've had to reformat or add functionality to files.

I don’t get it either. Why would you ever feel the need for them to begin with?

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

In software that’s already badly engineered. Either you do the work and refactor everything, or accept it’s probably not worth all the effort.

[-] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Unironically: For in-house scripts and toolboxes where I want to set stuff like input directory, output directory etc. for the whole toolbox, and then just run the scripts. There are other easy solutions of course, but this makes it really quick and easy to just run the scripts when I need to.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

But those would be constants, not variables.

[-] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I typically don't declare them as such - bring the pitchforks!

[-] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Everything’s a variable if you’re brave enough.

[-] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My void* doesn't care about your const!

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