The Anti-If Campaign

#1

Post by vaksel » Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 2:26 PM UTC

Re: The Anti-If Campaign

#2

Post by scott_s » Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 2:49 PM UTC

Oddly named campaign to promote better use of inheritance. "The Anti-Type Fields Campaign" would be more appropriate and less confusing.

Re: The Anti-If Campaign

#3

Post by calambrac » Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 2:51 PM UTC

Don't solve with conditionals that which can be solved by your language's dispatch mechanism.

Re: The Anti-If Campaign

#4

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 2:51 PM UTC

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Re: The Anti-If Campaign

#5

Post by J_McQuade » Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 2:58 PM UTC

This sort of debate annoys me - not so much because of the potentially fragile design on one side or the perhaps pedantic adherence to OOP principles on the other, but because I know that I could have things like pattern matching and a scarily expressive type system and, well, that'd make a lot of these problems disappear.

Curse you, Haskell, for making me so bitter!

Re: The Anti-If Campaign

#6

Post by henning » Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 3:09 PM UTC

scott_s wrote: post #2

Oddly named campaign to promote better use of inheritance. "The Anti-Type Fields Campaign" would be more appropriate and less confusing.

Inheritance or polymorphism?

Re: The Anti-If Campaign

#7

Post by scott_s » Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 3:14 PM UTC

henning wrote: post #6

scott_s wrote: post #2

Oddly named campaign to promote better use of inheritance. "The Anti-Type Fields Campaign" would be more appropriate and less confusing.

Inheritance or polymorphism?

Polymorphism. I knew just saying "inheritance" didn't feel right. Thanks.

Re: The Anti-If Campaign

#8

Post by davidw » Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 3:15 PM UTC

henning wrote: post #6

scott_s wrote: post #2

Oddly named campaign to promote better use of inheritance. "The Anti-Type Fields Campaign" would be more appropriate and less confusing.

Inheritance or polymorphism?

calambrac gets it right: 'dispatch'. I though the article was going to be about pattern matching, actually. I guess polymorphism is a sort of pattern matching, but the real thing goes farther.

Re: The Anti-If Campaign

#9

Post by tptacek » Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 3:19 PM UTC

This is a joke, right? They're making fun of all the programs you see that have 20 different forests of tiny classes spreading the logic of one function across 45 files, right?

Re: The Anti-If Campaign

#10

Post by tptacek » Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 3:30 PM UTC

calambrac wrote: post #3

Don't solve with conditionals that which can be solved by your language's dispatch mechanism.

Don't solve with 15 minutes that which you can bill your client 80 hours for.