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The temptation is always there (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 months ago (1 children)

But those would be constants, not variables.

[–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My void* doesn't care about your const!

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 1 points 11 months 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.