Yeah, I'd advocate for a 'fix as seen' basis instead of a whole rewrite project. But yeah. 

El mié, 12 mar 2025 a las 8:18, Kyle Hall (<kyle.m.hall@gmail.com>) escribió:
I believe you are correct. IIRC some of the times we've attempted to simply swap `our` for `my` it has created issues with the code. Swapping the variable for a caching mechanism definitely sounds like the way to go! I'm seeing a lot of `our` keywords that appear to be functionally constants, and should be changed to constants.

Kyle

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM Tomas Cohen Arazi via Koha-devel <koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> wrote:
I'm not sure why we didn't do it already, but running Koha in a persistent context has become the standard.

This means variables defined as `our $variable` will persist in memory while workers run. And this is dangerous for several reasons. The most obvious one is that sometimes the code expects the caller to pass a parameter and checks if it is defined, and using `our` might make it defined when it shouldn't.

If the reason to use it is caching, then it is a bad pattern anyway. We should be using the in-memory cache (lite) explicitly so everyone knows the value is expected to be fetched from a cache.

Looking forward to hear your thoughts

PS interestingly, I found this while finding the root cause for some files not being tidied :-P

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