About removing global variables
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Nov 25 20:40:24 UTC 2004
Hi jecel
> Having removed them entirely from Neo Smalltalk, I could hardly argue
> against this idea.
:)
Is NeoSmalltalk running on mac os X? Because I want to have a look.
>
>> [...]
>> 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.
Yes exactly and we could really leave without them.
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