understanding the javascript global namespace and closures

Is there a god (i.e. a parent) object? Yes. More technically, it’s the global object that all these primitives are members of; it just happens that in the browser, the window object is the global object. > window.String === String; true Why is it bad idea to have vars/functions on a global level? Because if … Read more

Global variable private to file

For the purpose of variable scoping, files have no meaning in Go. Think of all files in a package as if they would be concatenated, which (simplified) is exactly what happens before compilation. That means: No, there is no way of scoping a variable to a file. If you need two global WaitGroups, you need … Read more

how to share a variable across modules for all tests in py.test

Update: pytest-namespace hook is deprecated/removed. Do not use. See #3735 for details. You mention the obvious and least magical option: using a fixture. You can apply it to entire modules using pytestmark = pytest.mark.usefixtures(‘big_dict’) in your module, but then it won’t be in your namespace so explicitly requesting it might be best. Alternatively you can … Read more

How to deal with static storage duration warnings?

One way to defer initialization of global variables such as the ones you are using is to wrap them in get-functions. std::default_random_engine& getEngine() { // Initialized upon first call to the function. static std::default_random_engine engine(static_cast<unsigned int>(time(nullptr))); return engine; } std::uniform_int_distribution<unsigned int>& getRandomInt() { // Initialized upon first call to the function. static std::uniform_int_distribution<unsigned int> randomInt(1, … Read more

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