[KCP] SystemDictionary cleaning: Comments and design
Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
Thu Jun 12 18:05:06 UTC 2003
Sean Charles wrote:
>>
>> Such classes have too much dependencies and that's against all the
>> basic principle of OO programming. Here is a nice example, why should
>> I write Utilities pointOrNilFrom: '2,6' ? IMHO, that is really absurd.
>
>
> Why exactly is this absurd? If I was writing a point parsing program
> then this would be just what I needed.
It's only its location that is absurd. Parsing a point from a string is
a useful thing, but it should be on the class Point rather than in a
catch-all class such as Utilities. Richard's redesign would be a good
way to handle it.
- Doug Way
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