> When you set a password for your Twitter account, we use technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it… > Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process… Someone used a variable.
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Wow, working with someone who doesn’t name intermediates sounds unpleasant.
No, variables. These are different to values. Variables. You know, x = 0; x = x + 1. Variables.
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I assumed you meant any sort of named binding. I agree mutability makes code harder to reason about, but I feel like that’s one of the less likely reasons for this mistake.
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I guarantee you it's the cause.
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