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Subject: Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming?
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On 4/23/2011 6:10 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
> Let us consider a class Class and an object myObj of type Class. Let
> there be a method myMeth defined in the Class class.
>
> Are there some cases where typing e.g.
> ==
> myObj.myMeth(myObj)
> ==
> is not considered as `bad style?' That is, are there, more generally,
> some situations where passing an instanciated object to a method of
> this object is a good way of achieving something?

	boolean arrayHasEqualThing(Thing[] array, Thing thing) {
	    for (Thing t : array) {
	        if (t.equals(thing))   // Look here!
	            return true;
	    }
	    return false;
	}

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Eric Sosman
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