The audacity to do such a thing…

  • fluxion@lemmy.world
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    The answer is writing a program that writes the variables dynamically to a file and including that file into the source file that uses them.

    No need to thank me folks I’m just trying to make the world a better place.

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        Or in JavaScript you can build a string that creates the name of a variable in a sub loop by concatenating ““variable”+$i” and passing that value into a variable that is then read as the name of an incremental variable that a value is then passed to.

        This has the advantage of being both extremely unwieldy and highly inscrutable, and there’s a small chance it will make your coworkers send you death threats in slack.

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          JavaScript: They were so focused on whether or not they could that they forgot to consider whether or not they should

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          I once created a system to automatically load and execute arbitrary JS files and any exported functions in them as part of a server