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From: "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org>
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Subject: Re: multi-line Strings
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Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> Does the same literal occur more than once where it must be the
> same value?
>
> Would the code be more readable by using a descriptive name
> instead of a literal.

This is all sound and very sensible.

But... I'm amused to note that these conditions also apply to identifiers used 
in the code too.  Say I have a class name MyClass, and methods 
MyClass.myMethod().  It is obviously possible for the name "MyClass" to change, 
similarly for methods (in fact -- for me -- class and method name changes are 
the rule rather than the exception).  So, in the spirit of this discussion, 
shouldn't I put the class and method names into a config file somewhere (or 
"meta-config") file, and only refer to the class and method via some sort of 
access to the config data.

    <class:122> something = new <class:122>();
    something.<method:382365>(true);

;-)

    -- chris