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| From | Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Holy boop: goto for Java |
| Date | 2012-06-05 10:54 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:51:13 -0700, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:
>On 6/5/12 9:15 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> NO! Pulling some code out to make it a method that is called
>> ONLY ONCE is what I object to. (I might do it if there is
>> clearly-delineated functionality that could be useful again (but just
>> happens to be needed but once when it written)). I will not do it for
>> some manifesto.
>
>Code re-usability is the great lie that has become the manifesto, not
>pulling out a once-used method.
>
>You don't create a method, or a class, or any other abstraction just so
>that it is reusable. You create abstractions so that it is easier to
>manipulate the software without breaking it. Yes, if you have the same
>code in 3 places, pulling it into a method creates "reuse", but the
>reason you reuse the code is so that changes to it appear *everywhere*
>they should. Otherwise copy and paste would be an acceptable method of
>code reuse. And its not.
>
>My philosophy on designing software is make it correct, make it simple,
>make it pretty, make it fast. Usually (but granted not always) if you
>start from the left, you'll end up at the right much easier than
>starting at the right and going left.
>
>If making it simple or pretty involves pulling out a simple one-line
>method that isn't used but once, then so be it. If pulling that method
>out makes it uglier, then I don't do it.
We are in violent agreement.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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Re: Holy boop: goto for Java Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-04 10:50 -0700
Re: Holy boop: goto for Java Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-04 10:56 -0700
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Re: Holy boop: goto for Java Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-06-04 07:28 -0400
Re: Holy boop: goto for Java Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-03 22:10 -0700
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