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Accumulate and fire

"Accumulate and fire" is a programming style in which the program sets a number of global variables[?] or objects, then invokes subprograms or methods which operate on the globally set values.

This is considered problematic because:

  • programmers can forget to set a value before invoking
  • the state can change in a moment between setting and invoking, particularly when programming with threading.

This is considered an anti-pattern.



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