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[nycphp-talk] constants vs globals

David Mintz dmintz at davidmintz.org
Fri Feb 20 17:42:29 EST 2004



Then it's all settled: BEER! (This being Friday evening and all).


On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Dan Cech wrote:
>
> > Personally I use constants for data which is just that, something which
> > is not going to be different depending on the time of day, direction of
> > the wind, etc.  Anything else that I need either goes into the
> > appropriate class or $GLOBALS['config'].
>
> I am with Dan here. I rarely use constants, but when I do they're for
> stuff like PI. (Okay, that's built in, but you get the point.)
>
> Worrying about speed here is far less worrysome that accidentally
> defining the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. :)
>
> -adam
>
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