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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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[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 86 points 11 months ago

Just create a global object and stuff your variable in there. Now you have a global singleton and that's not a purely bad practice :D

[-] Techmaster@lemm.ee 48 points 11 months ago

Just call it "state management" and nobody will even care.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 40 points 11 months ago

Not necessarily a bad practice if the singleton is immutable, and it’s provided via dependency injection for example.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

As a hobby coder: "mmmhm, mmmm, mmhm... I know some of these words!"

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Software dev is full of obscure keywords that describe otherwise pretty simple or basic concepts you stumble upon in practice naturally and that you probably already understand.

singleton: a class/object that is designed to be single use, i.e. only ever instantiated with a single instance. Typically used when you use class/objects more for flow control or to represent the state of the program itself, rather than using it to represent data
immutable: read-only, i.e. unchangeable
dependency injection: basically when you pass a function or object into another function object, thereby extending their effective functionality, typically for modular code and to separate concerns.

Here's one more of my favourite examples of such a keyword: memoization

[-] Solemarc@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Ahh yes memoization, the complicated way to say "remember this, I might need it again"

[-] Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Important to contain all your mess to one side of the room, makes it easier to manage

[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah yeah let's put all the eggs in one basket

[-] mdk_@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

So you saying, just the tip?

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Real enterprise programmers know that everything should be on the stack... so they declare a List《void*》 in main.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

But we might need to add more features in the future so it might not just be a list in a few years. Better encapsulate it in a few layers of abstractions just to be safe.