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[nycphp-talk] constants vs globals

Jeff Siegel jsiegel1 at optonline.net
Fri Feb 20 17:48:06 EST 2004


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

Love the way you summed up the argument! :)

Jeff Siegel


David Mintz wrote:

> 
> Then it's all settled: BEER! (This being Friday evening and all).
> 
> 
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote:
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> 
>>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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