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Re:I'm Sick of This by tjstankus on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @01:51PM (#553085)
I don't think global variables were mentioned in the article. Do you mean the global (top-level) namespace? If so, then yeah, "Don't do that" is pretty much the solution.
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Re:I'm Sick of This by andreyf on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @03:09PM (#553243)
Sorry, maybe this isn't correct Ruby nomenclature, but I see Array simply as a global object, which can be modified, with rather obvious consequences. It's sad that I feel old enough to say this, but isn't this a problem that we solved a long time ago?

"Don't do that" is one solution, Alan Kay's idea of "worlds" is another.

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