About removing global variables
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel at merlintec.com
Thu Nov 25 14:01:44 UTC 2004
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?st=E9phane_ducasse?= wrote on Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:43:56
+0100
> I wanted to get feedback about the idea of removing global variables in
> Smalltalk.
Having removed them entirely from Neo Smalltalk, I could hardly argue
against this idea.
> [...]
> Now we would have to type Smalltalk transcript instead of Transcript.
Well, you removed all but one ;-)
Globals are specially bad from a security viewpoint. They violate POLA
(principal of least authority) by making a set of objects available to
every single object in the system.
-- Jecel
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