> 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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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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Interesting, why do you think that?
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"blah happened before bleh [but we missed that]" is caused by using variables, 100% of the time. Also, if you do not use variables, there cannot possibly be such a thing.
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