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		davexunit on April 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You have ruined JavaScript "Dependency injection" is just a silly term for formal parameters. Wow, we can make a function more generic by minimizing the number of free variables! Who knew?

seanmcdirmid on April 23, 2014 [–]

Dependency injection is more like dynamic scoping, whereas most formal parameters are lexically scoped.

davexunit on April 23, 2014 | [–]

Fair point, but that makes DI a really poor implementation of dynamic scoping.

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