On 2019-08-15, at 2:10 AM, Thiede, Christoph Christoph.Thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:
Of course, excessive use of #caseOf: might indicate the lack of an inheritance tree, but I don't think this is specific to #caseOf:, the same smell can be written with many conditionals as well.
It is a long understood truism that there is no language in which the poor programmer cannot write FORTRAN.
I've long ago lost count of the number of times I have seen stuff like
(thing isKindOf: Weeble) ifTrue:["do something daft"]. (thing isKindOf: Blobby) ifFalse: ["do related ridiculous thing that could be factored properly"]. thing doodah caseOf: .... etc etc
I used to find it disheartening. Now I just find it tedious and occasionally profitable as I get paid to make it right.
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