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Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted

From	lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted
Date	2011-07-29 09:25 -0700
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Ross wrote:
> I'm really confident that what I am doing is a really good idea. A lot

Nope.

> of things that were tricky and/or non-intuitive or complicated have
> suddenly simplified right down, and it's a much, much, better
> structure program now than before I had this class. A fair number of
> classes which before had long and complex argument lists in their
> constructors now take one argument. And I find that when I find that I
> DO need access to the properties from one particular class, I just get
> them from this "central" object, and don't have to go around changing
> constructor calls elsewhere.

Avoid "God classes".  Your suggestion is an infamous antipattern in
the industry. You are "confident" about a really bad idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_object

Keep learning, grasshopper.

--
Lew

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Really "BIG" class name wanted Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 03:20 -0700
  Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-28 03:38 -0700
  Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-07-28 04:01 -0700
  Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-28 06:35 -0700
    Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 05:28 -0700
      Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-29 06:36 -0700
      Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-29 15:55 +0200
      Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-07-29 14:56 +0100
      Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-07-29 15:08 +0100
      Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Silvio <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-07-29 17:32 +0200
        Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Silvio <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-08-01 13:47 +0200
      Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 09:25 -0700
      Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 23:08 -0700
        Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-07-30 11:24 +0000
          Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-30 06:10 -0700
            Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-08-01 16:22 -0700
      Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-31 02:29 -0700
      Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-01 14:22 -0700
        Re: "$" in class names reserved [was: Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted] Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2011-08-02 02:33 -0400
    Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 05:37 -0700
      Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Bent C Dalager <bcd@pvv.ntnu.no> - 2011-07-30 22:42 +0000
        Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted thoolen <thoolen@tholenbot.thorium> - 2011-07-30 23:38 -0400
  Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-31 20:32 -0700
  Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted Silvio <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-08-01 13:54 +0200

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