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		caspper69 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Global variables are not the problem This sounds like a design deficiency. If you have something that should only run in testing, perhaps your test harness should set the global variable appropriately, no?

stickfigure 10 months ago [–]

Sure. And a million programmers have all screamed out in horror when they realize that their single test passes, but fails when run as part of the whole suite. Test contamination is a hell paved with global variables.

Tainnor 10 months ago | [–]

I can't agree more, I was dying this death a thousand times over at my last job.

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