Re: Context parameter in public API

"Bill Tutt" <rassilon@lyra.org> writes:
> > Or, instead of a context baton, should we just have a global
> > Configuration object? (Please, no reflexive "globals are evil"
> > responses. If this particular use of a global object is evil, say
> > exactly why.)
>
> The general answer to as to why globals are evil ends up revolving
> around thread safety.

Right, but in this case we'd initialize a global data structure at
startup time, based on the data in ~/.subversion/*, and then never
modify that structure afterwards.

So is thread-safety really an issue here?

-K

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Received on Sat Oct 12 06:31:53 2002