Future projects (post release)

[Eric S. Raymond]

Ian Bruene via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> 
> Future project: refactoring ntpd's system variables into a struct.
> 
> I've been looking at the code around mode 6 generation and discovered that
> in some areas it's still globals all the way down. Translating these globals
> will make future refactoring/translating easier.

Also a good plan.  And a good exercise for you.

We may not manage one big struct - there can be semantic reasons you might
not *quite* want to go there - but a small number of structs bundling
semantically related globals would be excellent.

Ian, this relates to what I was saying on IRC about not-quite-OO.
"Good" is packing variables into fields of shared-lifetime context
structures.  "Better" is using that process to notice what the
program's natural objects are, and carving that way.  The first
transformation is mechanical; the second requires taste and judgment.
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