Yeah, I'd advocate for a 'fix as seen' basis instead of a whole rewrite
project. But yeah.

El mié, 12 mar 2025 a las 8:18, Kyle Hall (<kyle.m.h...@gmail.com>)
escribió:

> I believe you are correct. IIRC some of the times we've attempted to
> simply swap `our` for `my` it has created issues with the code. Swapping
> the variable for a caching mechanism definitely sounds like the way to go!
> I'm seeing a lot of `our` keywords that appear to be functionally
> constants, and should be changed to constants.
>
> Kyle
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> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM Tomas Cohen Arazi via Koha-devel <
> koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure why we didn't do it already, but running Koha in a
>> persistent context has become the standard.
>>
>> This means variables defined as `our $variable` will persist in memory
>> while workers run. And this is dangerous for several reasons. The most
>> obvious one is that sometimes the code expects the caller to pass a
>> parameter and checks if it is defined, and using `our` might make it
>> defined when it shouldn't.
>>
>> If the reason to use it is caching, then it is a bad pattern anyway. We
>> should be using the in-memory cache (lite) explicitly so everyone knows the
>> value is expected to be fetched from a cache.
>>
>> Looking forward to hear your thoughts
>>
>> PS interestingly, I found this while finding the root cause for some
>> files not being tidied :-P
>> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=39152
>>
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