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  • "The approach you are suggesting would be perfect for that kind of abuse" yikes I've been fortunate enough to never work at a place where people did that. "I take it that you are suggesting this would be somehow isolated in its own source files" yes, I usually define a constants file(s)/package(s) in my projects. Depending on the needs and complexity, also/instead sometimes a runtime configuration manager. I realize something based on this answer I need to stress more in my question: I'm mostly thinking of cases where people writing the code and people doing the configuring are the same people Commented Feb 15, 2024 at 18:29
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    @JaredSmith When I write little scripts that I run locally (mostly Python) I typically won't bother with configuration. A middle ground approach I sometimes use is to use a hardcoded dict for 'configuration' which I can replace easily with a toml file if it makes it past the experimentation phase. Commented Feb 15, 2024 at 18:50