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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "John 'Warthog9' Hawley" <warthog9@eaglescrag.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/18] gitweb: Change file handles (in caching) to lexical variables as opposed to globs
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:47:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012100147.20747.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwrnieac8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>> "John 'Warthog9' Hawley" <warthog9@eaglescrag.net> writes:
>>> 
>>> +# Global declarations
>>> +our $cacheFile;
>>> +our $cacheFileBG;
>>> +our $cacheFileBinWT;
>>> +our $cacheFileBin;
>>
>> You are trading globs for global (well, package) variables.  They are
>> not lexical filehandles... though I'm not sure if it would be possible
>> without restructuring code; note that if variable holding filehandle
>> falls out of scope, then file would be automatically closed.
> 
> Hmm. why is it a bad idea, when you need to access these from practically
> everywhere, to use global variables to begin with?  To a certain degree,
> it sounds like an unnecessary burden without much gain to me.

If you check my rewrite of gitweb output caching:

  "[PATCHv6/RFC 00/24] gitweb: Simple file based output caching"
  

http://repo.or.cz/w/git/jnareb-git.git/shortlog/refs/heads/origin..refs/heads/gitweb/cache-kernel-v6
https://github.com/jnareb/git/compare/origin...gitweb/cache-kernel-v6

you would see that I always use lexical filehandles, and I never need
to use global variables / glob filehandles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_variables
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-10  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-09 21:57 [PATCH 00/18] Gitweb caching v8 John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 01/18] gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitweb John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 23:30   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 02/18] gitweb: add output buffering and associated functions John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 03/18] gitweb: File based caching layer (from git.kernel.org) John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 04/18] gitweb: Minimal testing of gitweb caching John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 05/18] gitweb: Regression fix concerning binary output of files John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 23:33   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 06/18] gitweb: Add more explicit means of disabling 'Generating...' page John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 07/18] gitweb: Revert back to $cache_enable vs. $caching_enabled John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 23:38   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  2:38     ` J.H.
2010-12-10 13:48       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 08/18] gitweb: Change is_cacheable() to return true always John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 23:46   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 09/18] gitweb: Revert reset_output() back to original code John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 23:58   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  2:43     ` J.H.
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 10/18] gitweb: Adding isBinaryAction() and isFeedAction() to determine the action type John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  0:06   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  3:39     ` J.H.
2010-12-10 12:10       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10 12:25         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 11/18] gitweb: add isDumbClient() check John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  0:12   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  4:00     ` J.H.
2010-12-11  0:07       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-11  0:15         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-11  1:15           ` J.H.
2010-12-11  1:40             ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 12/18] gitweb: Change file handles (in caching) to lexical variables as opposed to globs John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  0:16   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  0:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-10  0:47       ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2010-12-10  5:56       ` J.H.
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 13/18] gitweb: Add commented url & url hash to page footer John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  0:26   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  6:10     ` J.H.
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 14/18] gitweb: add print_transient_header() function for central header printing John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  0:36   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  6:18     ` J.H.
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 15/18] gitweb: Add show_warning() to display an immediate warning, with refresh John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  1:01   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  7:38     ` J.H.
2010-12-10 14:10       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 16/18] gitweb: When changing output (STDOUT) change STDERR as well John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  1:36   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-12  5:25     ` J.H.
2010-12-12 15:17       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 17/18] gitweb: Prepare for cached error pages & better error page handling John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  1:49   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  8:33     ` J.H.
2010-12-10 20:33       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 18/18] gitweb: Add better error handling for gitweb caching John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  1:56   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 23:26 ` [PATCH 00/18] Gitweb caching v8 Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  0:43   ` J.H.
2010-12-10  1:27     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  0:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-10  0:45   ` J.H.

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