PyMyth: Global variables are evil... WRONG!

[Ricardo Aráoz]

El 12/11/13 01:46, Rick Johnson escribió:
> No, Python modules can be poked, prodded, and violated by any pervert 
> who can spell the word "import". Attribute values can be reassigned 
> and state can be externally manipulated resulting in all types of 
> undefined behaviors -- 

Nice!
My code, my responsibility, my business.... not yours.

> that does not sound like an interface to me. So if python modules are 
> importable everywhere, and mutable from everywhere, then python 
> modules are merely addresses to a collection of global variables? And 
> they're only interfaces "superficially"? So that leaves us with 
> Python's current implementation of unofficial "global" variables 
> implemented as "puesdo- interfaces" by module objects that are victims 
> waiting to be violated. Interesting. IF IT WALKS LIKE A GLOBAL DUCK 
> AND... 

Nice choice of words, "violated", "victims".... Really conductive to a
balanced unprejudiced thought process.