Articles in category: OOP
Imagine you need to use a fixed numeric value in your code, let’s say 20000. It is what we call a literal constant, that is a value that will always remain the exact same in your code.
Now imagine you need to use that value more than once. Sooner or later you will read your code and you will not remember what 20000 was, it will happen for sure. But what if you assign the value to an immutable variable with a meaningful name? Let’s say something like this:
Sometimes I do a full immersion on topics of my interest, generally related to programming, topics on testing, good design, etc.
I apply a technique invented by me named: “Google from zero to infinite”.
A few days ago I stumbled on a strange tweet that was highlighting a controversy about scalar type hints.
Maintaining state is the main cause of complexity and headaches in software development: without a careful consideration of state, our projects will inevitably become impossible to understand. In fact, various development techniques and programming styles are mainly there to handle state in a responsible way: for example, monads, as used in functional programming, are often employed for this very task. A good general way of managing state is trying to make it immutable, either through the use…
There is an unwanted guest with us as we write code and build software projects: it’s the code that’s already written, and we must take into account its complexity as the code base increases in size. High complexity of the existing code can make the following activities particularly difficult:
