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<p>If I had been there, the conversation would have gone something like this.</p>
<blockquote><i>name used only once</i></blockquote>
<p>You are either putting data into a variable and not getting it out again (which seems pointless) or trying to get data out of a variable that you haven't put data into (which seems stupid).</p>
<blockquote><i>global symbol requires package reference, things like that</i></blockquote>
<p>Your code has variables that can be (accidently!) used outside of the necessary scope. This is dangerous.</p>
<blockquote><i>It cluttered up the SYSOUT and made it hard to find the real bugs</i></blockquote>
<p>This <b>are</b> the real bugs. Fix them.</p>
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