So the best organization of code is...

Post #156,783 by ChrisR 5/24/04 11:16:32 PM Reply	So the best organization of code is... ...to have no organization since such things will invariably get in the way of extendibility?
Post #156,788 by admin 5/25/04 12:06:18 AM Reply	The funny thing is... ... that the more complicated requirements get in an OO model, the simpler the design seems to become. Very odd, but there you have it. I've noticed this effect several times. As more complexity is added an overall pattern begins to emerge. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #156,827 by drewk 5/25/04 9:21:30 AM Reply	Noticed that too When we started on a new project, we knew that more than one customer would eventually want to use it. We tried to make it open and extensible, but unsurprisingly didn't anticipate the things that would actually change for the next customer. We (meaning "I") have since decided that we can't anticipate the future changes well enough to already have them handled. By the third iteration, we know how it should actually be built, and the base classes always come out cleaner and more flexible than the original anyway. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #156,803 by tablizer 5/25/04 1:31:18 AM Reply	That is NOT what I said I group code by "task". That is the most stable grouping the majority of the time. OO'ers like to group by nouns and hierarchical (or "subtype") noun taxonomies. ________________ oop.ismad.com
Post #156,834 by admin 5/25/04 10:16:12 AM Reply	Re: That is NOT what I said Nouns: Clients Users Accounts Tasks: Decryption Parsing What was that you were saying, again? Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #156,848 by FuManChu 5/25/04 11:19:09 AM Reply	Poor dichotomy on which to base your opinion of OO As Scott points out, it's common to encapsulate tasks as objects. This is perhaps the issue you missed in the "composition" example above. And just in case you haven't bothered to read the GoF book: [link\|http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CategoryBehavioralPatterns\|http://c2.com/cgi/wi...ehavioralPatterns]
Post #156,952 by tablizer 5/25/04 7:30:34 PM Reply	re: Poor dichotomy on which to base your opinion of OO Generally OO groups by noun, but when methods get too big or complicated then it creates task-based classes that tend to more resemble procedural modules. ________________ oop.ismad.com
Post #156,954 by admin 5/25/04 7:36:46 PM Reply	re: Poor dichotomy on which to base your opinion of OO Excepting that you can pass "task-based" class instances around like data. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #156,960 by tablizer 5/25/04 8:17:23 PM Reply	How Lisp of you. Just add some TOP now. ________________ oop.ismad.com

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