[Karellen]

> This looks like a global variable in a codebase (something we generally try to avoid).

Aren't they more like global constants than variables? Loaded at startup, and never change during that run of the program. (With the exception of only explicitly being re-read on SIGUSR1 for daemon-like programs.)

And global consts, or #defines, or whatever, are things we generally don't try to avoid?