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Re: borrowing Constants

Date	2011-09-25 22:36 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Subject	Re: borrowing Constants
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On 9/24/2011 9:18 PM, markspace wrote:
> On 9/24/2011 5:09 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> Another rule of thumb may be, instead of cross linking classes with
>> references to each others constants, refactor out the constants to a
>> third class, and reference it
>
> Generally, no. It's been tried, and found to not work well. A class full
> of unrelated constants is just that: a class full of unrelated
> constants. Put the constants where they belong.

That is very basic good design.

Arne

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borrowing Constants Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-23 17:40 -0700
  Re: borrowing Constants Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-23 20:44 -0400
    Re: borrowing Constants Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-09-23 22:10 -0300
      Re: borrowing Constants Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-23 18:39 -0700
        Re: borrowing Constants Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-23 22:17 -0400
        Re: borrowing Constants Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-09-25 11:25 -0700
          Re: borrowing Constants Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-25 11:36 -0700
      Re: borrowing Constants Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-23 22:30 -0400
  Re: borrowing Constants Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-23 21:15 -0400
    Re: borrowing Constants Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-23 18:43 -0700
  Re: borrowing Constants markspace <-@.> - 2011-09-23 18:44 -0700
    Re: borrowing Constants Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-23 19:19 -0700
    Re: borrowing Constants Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-23 22:32 -0400
  Re: borrowing Constants Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-23 19:11 -0700
    Re: borrowing Constants Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-23 19:26 -0700
  Re: borrowing Constants v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2011-09-24 09:44 +0000
  Re: borrowing Constants Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-24 15:38 -0700
  Re: borrowing Constants Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-24 17:09 -0700
    Re: borrowing Constants Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-24 20:14 -0400
    Re: borrowing Constants markspace <-@.> - 2011-09-24 18:18 -0700
      Re: borrowing Constants Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-25 22:36 -0400
    Re: borrowing Constants Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-25 22:35 -0400
  Re: borrowing Constants Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-09-26 01:22 +0200

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