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In poltergeist, whats wrong with "solely to trigger or initialize several other objects"? Isn't it is a good use of encapsulation and reuse?
After reading What differentiates function objects from poltergeists?, according to the definition of poltergeist, I still don't understand why would "poltergeist" be a bad pattern: A ...
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No trivial god-class refactoring
Consider you have the following code: class UserContainer { List<User> user; //some methods to get specific users, for example users, which are higher than 1,70meters } The User have a ...
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Swappable state object or decoupling data and functions
I come from OOP pradigm and I also know a bit about functional programming and its advantages. Over time I came to like the separation of data and transformations that are applied to it using pure ...
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How to bring a code to conformance with tell, don't ask without creating tons of methods on other classes?
It used to be fairly common for people to call a getter, do some calculation on it, then call a setter with the result. This is a clear sign your calculation actually belongs to the class you called ...
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Auto-Initializable Objects Pattern
I'm working on a system where we consistently apply "patterns" or approaches such as Dependency Injection. I'd rather not expose the current underlying technology as not to get biased solutions, ...
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How to manage configuration and state in a program
At my company we have multiple C# programs that use Dictionaries in a config class to keep track of the configuration and state of the program. For example, bool isFoo = config.GetBool("Foo"); This ...
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A modification of singleton pattern
"Singleton" is widely considered anti-pattern ("bad" in everyday language). What about this alternative modified singleton pattern? An object constructor for our class ensures that at any given ...
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Is there an official name for the "one object disease" anti-pattern (iterative single object operations on databases, services etc.)?
It is caused by the naive programming paradigm: focus on just a single object, do something with it, and if you have to work with many objects, you loop, iterate and traverse, repeating the operation ...
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What alternatives to a singleton are there for a class which only can have one instance?
I need to represent an abstraction over various parts of the hardware for a game. I'm trying to decouple the code that does things like manage the logic of the game from the code that is API/platform ...
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Constructor-only subclasses: Is this an anti-pattern?
I was having a discussion with a co-worker, and we ended up having conflicting intuitions about the purpose of subclassing. My intuition is that if a primary function of a subclass is to express a ...
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Are error variables an anti-pattern or good design?
In order to handle several possible errors that shouldn't halt execution, I have an error variable that clients can check and use to throw exceptions. Is this an Anti-Pattern? Is there a better way to ...
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Is ORM an Anti-Pattern? [closed]
I had a very stimulating and interessting discussion with a colleague about ORM and its pros and cons. In my opinion, an ORM is useful only in the rarest cases. At least in my experience. But I don't ...
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