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Use the [state] tag for questions pertaining to retained information determining the behavior of a program.

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Why is Global State so Evil?

If you say "state", that is usually taken to mean "mutable state". … And global mutable state is totally evil, because it means that any part of the program can influence any other part (by changing the global state). …
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