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Thanks - any thoughts on reasons besides maintainability? Could you point out some programming standards / approaches it violates? @DeadMG ?

siliconpi
– siliconpi

2011-07-30 23:56:54 +00:00
Commented Jul 30, 2011 at 23:56
I pretty much pointed out all there is to say. This style is unacceptable for the reasons I mentioned. And those are some very good reasons. I know it's hard to communicate them to inexperienced developers. Bad reusability, testability, maintainability, dependence on globals...that's probably the worst you can say about code at all.

Falcon
– Falcon

2011-07-31 10:08:49 +00:00
Commented Jul 31, 2011 at 10:08
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@matt74tm: Just imagine you wanted stateful URLs with this code ...

Falcon
– Falcon

2011-07-31 20:57:39 +00:00
Commented Jul 31, 2011 at 20:57

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