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ACCUMULATE AND FIRE
Specialty Definition: Accumulate and fire
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Accumulate and fire" is a programming style in which the program sets a number of global variables or objectss, 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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