Monthly Archives: November 2018

Constants and Errors

Still reviewing that code base and finding more bad patterns for use of constants, this time for error messages.   This is another “don’t do this” post.

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Constant Abuse 2

Some programmers believe that constants are the source of all goodness, because it means in the future that everything will be malliable.  Particularly programmers paid by the hour.  This is a mistake.  Readibility suffers if constants are abused.  I am … Continue reading

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