[KCP] SystemDictionary cleaning: Comments and design

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Jun 11 18:41:14 UTC 2003


Hi Martin

> You don't have to twist the code, I think this is demonstrated by
> Stephane, who creates easily new classes and drag and drop's the
> methods over there.

I should say that I really appreciate this comment.


>  Look for instance at Utilities class comment. It
> says: 'methods that don't naturally attach to anything else'. These
> methods are functions and you won't create instances of the new
> classes, they are just more or less function-holders. There is no
> complicated interdependency of classes and methods to understand. It
> is only a question of 'listing' these functions.

If this is what **you** believe...

> So this is not normal code, and besides, your rule of thumb that only
> separated code is good SE is oversimplified, because there is always
> an optimal balance of separation and aggregation.
>
> To integrate code with an UI means more work than simply grouping
> pieces of code together and an UI would need this grouping-info anyway.
>
>
> There is no need to put printing-related stuff together, because there
> is a method-category 'printing' and printing selectors include
> something like 'print'. This stuff is what you will find with browsing
> implementors/selectors without putting it together!
>
> regards,
> Martin
>
>
>



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