alt Hacker NewsWith 100 functions and one datastructure it is almost as programming with a global variables where new instance is equivalent to a new process. Doesn’t seem like a good rule to follow.
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imtringued • today at 11:01 AM
In languages without generics, like C, people tend to build a custom list type that only holds their particular type. This leads to a proliferation of list types each with sparse feature support.
It is better to have one collection type and use it everywhere directly.
Some Java developers had a tendency to encapsulate collections in <Type>Manager classes that grant limited operations/access to the list type. In practice this doesn't really buy you anything and you could have had a regular List<Type> instead.
The scope of where that data structure or functions are available is a different concern though, "100 functions + 1 data structure" doesn't require globals or private, it's a separate thing.