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From: normalperson at yhbt.net (Eric Wong)
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:59:12 +0000
Subject: Policy on global variables
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"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> In theory, passing around the variable, and not relying on a global,
> is better. It allows us at somepoint to have multiple contexts, for,
> say, implementing FastCGI or an event loop single-process multi
> response model.

This.  I prefer we keep passing around the ctx variable to keep the code
more flexible for future reuse.  Of course, IIRC git itself has this
limitation, too...