Re: A tip: a technique to limit the # of global variables

[Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 10:27, Roman Perepelitsa
<roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:21 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
> <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > when writing a plugin one often needs to keep a state during the Zsh
> > session. To do this it is natural to use global parameters. However,
> > when the number of the parameters grows one might want to limit it.
>
> What are the advantages of having fewer global parameters? Why is it
> better to have this:
>
>     typeset -gA PLGMAP=(foo 42 bar hello)
>
> Than this:
>
>     typeset -gi PLGMAP_foo=42
>     typeset -g  PLGMAP_bar=hello
>
> Roman.

I think that it's about not "cluttering" the global namespace with the
parameters. Zplugin had 37 global parameters, now it has only 16. Even
a situation when a curious user enters print $ZPLG<TAB> and sees fewer
entries is positive. This hides implementation, on the other hand, but
one can decide what to hide when writing, i.e. what isn't meaningful
for a curious user.

PS. The message should go to zsh-users, hence I'm moving it there.

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