Re: Concrete classes considered harmful

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: Concrete classes considered harmful
Date	2015-07-12 09:17 +1200
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Mr Flibble wrote:
> On 11/07/2015 04:09, Ian Collins wrote:
>> Mr Flibble wrote:
>>> Dependencies on concrete classes are considered harmful and should be
>>> replaced with dependencies on abstractions.
>>
>> By whom?
>
> Go learn the SOLID principles; anyone who does not know and/or follow
> SOLID is not a very good engineer IMO.

Well I certainly know about them and consider them guidelines, not hard 
and fast rules.  If you follow any set of guidelines as if they were 
gospel, you'll end up like the religious zealots who pop up here from 
time to time.

Oh by the way, I also use int in my code, so I guess by your standards 
I'm already not a very good engineer.

>>> A class should not new its
>>> member objects for example but rather should use a factory passed into
>>> its constructor.
>>
>> Why?
>
> Good luck unit testing a class that has lots of dependencies on concretions.

I've been unit testing everything I write for over a decade now and I've 
yet to encounter problems with non-abstract base classes.  Go and and 
learn about mock objects.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-11 04:04 +0100
  Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-11 15:09 +1200
    Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-11 17:49 +0100
      Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-11 18:10 +0100
        Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Martin Shobe <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-11 13:33 -0500
      Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-12 09:17 +1200
        Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 01:51 +0100
          Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-12 13:20 +1200
            Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 02:32 +0100
              Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-12 15:48 +1200
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 13:46 +0100
              Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-12 16:14 +1200
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2015-07-13 17:46 +0000
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-14 08:52 +1200
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2015-07-13 22:01 +0000
            Re: Concrete classes considered harmful legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2015-07-13 17:28 +0000
              Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-14 08:47 +1200
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2015-07-13 22:02 +0000
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-14 10:35 +1200
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2015-07-14 04:52 +0000
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-14 19:31 +1200
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2015-07-15 16:57 +0000
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-16 09:49 +1200
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2015-07-16 15:53 +0000
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-10-08 13:20 +0000
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2015-10-12 20:48 +0000
      Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2015-07-12 11:32 +0000
        Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Chris Vine <chris@cvine--nospam--.freeserve.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 13:46 +0100
          Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 13:54 +0100
            Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Chris Vine <chris@cvine--nospam--.freeserve.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 14:21 +0100
              Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 14:40 +0100
                Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Chris Vine <chris@cvine--nospam--.freeserve.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 14:59 +0100
    Re: Concrete classes considered harmful legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2015-07-13 17:08 +0000
      Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-13 19:59 +0100
      Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-13 20:06 +0100
  Re: Concrete classes considered harmful "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 05:11 +0200
    Re: Concrete classes considered harmful legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2015-07-13 17:10 +0000
  Re: Concrete classes considered harmful "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 06:07 +0200
    Re: Concrete classes considered harmful woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2015-07-11 14:12 -0700
  Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2015-07-11 02:06 -0500
    Re: Concrete classes considered harmful JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-07-11 08:28 +0100
    Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2015-07-11 15:48 +0800
  Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Chris Vine <chris@cvine--nospam--.freeserve.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 00:16 +0100
    Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 01:52 +0100
  Re: Concrete classes considered harmful David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2015-07-12 06:58 -0700
    Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 15:45 +0100
  Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.co.uk> - 2015-07-12 16:30 +0100
    Re: Concrete classes considered harmful woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2015-07-12 11:23 -0700
      Re: Concrete classes considered harmful "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2015-07-12 21:37 +0200
        Re: Concrete classes considered harmful woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2015-07-12 14:34 -0700
      Re: Concrete classes considered harmful Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@linux-projects.org> - 2015-07-13 00:38 +0200

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