• The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Java devs have some of the worst habits when they learn a new language. Why create a global variable for a setting in python when you can instead wrap that global variable in a Singleton class that makes using it no safer, and far more complicated

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      2 years ago

      Actually, I like encapsulating global state in a structured and documented construct. But I guess I could see Java developers going overboard with abstraction in an imperative language.

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        There are good reasons to do singletons in python. But your first instinct shouldn’t be to jump straight to one