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Vanilla interface implementations. What should I call it? [closed]
Some may think I'm kidding, but I'm really stuck on this Suppose you have some UserDao interface that you want to implement What should you call it? Here are a few points I'd like to make I firmly ...
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How robust should an interface/implementation be?
In a spare-time project of mine, I implemented RSA public-key cryptosystem. Because the official PKCS#1 standard specify key formats in terms of ASN.1 syntax and DER/BER coding, which is a coding with ...
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How are interfaces implemented behind the scenes in the Go language?
I have read this article which indicates a double tuple structure, but it is unfortunately light on implementation details, which is what I am looking for. So... how are interfaces implemented in Go? ...
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Gradle/Maven project splitting: interfaces and implementation
Assume we have a single large JVM project (the example is in Kotlin), containing code. As part of a refactoring effort, we are decoupling pieces of the code by splitting the code into multiple modules,...
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Confused about inheritance and correct usage. Should I avoid using members in base class?
I am using C++ , but as far as I understand most OO principles are cross language. In most of the articles that I have read and liked about inheritance the advice are about : not to use it for the ...
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Java interface design: where should I put a lot of duplicate code that will be used by all subclasses?
Java interface design: where should I put a lot of duplicate code that will be used by all subclasses? interface Tuple { void method1(); } class Tuple1 implements Tuple { @Override public ...
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Behaviour that depends on two sides
I would like to have the following interface: Resource { public: void copyInto(Resource* src) = 0; } But in order to implement this, the implementation would need to know (or make assumptions about) ...
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Can a class represent two implementations?
I'm unsure about several things: I have a class that implements a NotificationDispatcher interface. This class I named WhatsappNotificationDispatcher, another implementation goes by ...
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Use case for interface
While going through some lecture video on interface. I noticed If we don't know about implementation, just requirement specification then go for interface. What can be the scenario? Though I've ...
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What does the author mean by casting the interface reference to any implementation?
I am currently in the process of trying to master C#, so I am reading Adaptive Code via C# by Gary McLean Hall. He writes about patterns and anti-patterns. In the implementations versus interfaces ...
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Is implementations not being interchangeable and having to cast often a code smell?
I'm building a small game similar to chess. I'd like to be able to reuse the structure for another version of checkers too. I'm modeling the games with interfaces (showing only relevant ones): ...
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Separate interface from implementation
What is the meaning of separating interface from implementation in C++? And also what is implied by interface and implementation?
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Is it acceptable to make changes to an interface during implementation?
When writing a library/API for the first time I'll usually start by sketching some ideas on a white-board or loose-leaf while thinking about how different parts of the system interact. This usually ...
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Lower class count vs explicitness
To help with an application that manipulates and works from an XML structure to produce other information, I've created a class structure that closely follows the XML structure. So, the XML is: <...
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What is the origin of "Program to an interface, not an implementation"? [closed]
What is the origin of "Program to an interface, not an implementation"? Does it originate from Design Patterns, 1994, by GoF, or from a computer scientist or from some concepts in computer ...
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