There is no emoticon for what I am feeling!
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
This is not something easy to do in Java, but in Ruby it's solved, more or less, by letting arrays and other collections have methods that accept a code block and execute it for each item in a collection.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of the idea. John Ciardi
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Taken literally, Demeter says that iterating over a collection and doing something to each item is wrong.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of the idea. John Ciardi
Originally posted by Stan James:
Does forAllDo() just push this (maybe) "wrong" thing into a library where you can ignore it?
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Frank Carver:
As pointed out above. Designing an abstraction from scratch (and typically in isolation) often leads to a kind of "minimalist but complete" solution which might be clumsy for real world use but contains very little duplication.
Similarly, Designing from real requirements (be it TDD or any other similar approach) often leads to a friendly but internally messy and duplicated solution.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus