You write like you can know how and where the code will get executed in the future. :) Do you think that the authors of Windows 95 ever imagined the system would one day get ported to an obscure subset of a functional scripting language (Asm.js variety of JavaScript), and get booted in a hyper-text browser running on a PDA device with internet connection (web browser on a smartphone)? Yet - here we are: https://win95.ajf.me/

> I'm not saying it's good coding practice, mind you, but it probably ends up accidentally working in most cases

Fully agree. It's still bad practice and I high-five every linter that automatically flags it.