OO Exercise

[Grant Crofton]

I notice XP Manchester are doing something based on this:

http://binstock.blogspot.com/2008/04/perfecting-oos-small-classes-and-short.html 

I'd be pretty interested in giving that a try, anybody else?

[Stewart Abel]

Definitely, looks pretty interesting.

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[Andy Stewart]

That sounds like a great idea to me. I recently read the GOOS book (http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/) and whilst it is strictly about being guided by tests when writing software I found that it encourages a similar line of thinking, just without the strict rules. Having said they are strict I think that actually the majority of them are ok the majority of the time :)

[Aaron]

Ed mentioned you were enjoying GOOS - I'll have to pick that up!

Looks like an interesting exercise - the "no else clause" rule feels strange after doing some Haskell where you CAN'T have an "if" without an else. 

And the "no more than 50 lines/class" seems to prohibit java - or at least if you're going to have a toString, hashCode and Equals method!

Cheers,
Aaron

[Grant Crofton]

I'm just reading GOOS now, as it happens.  I haven't really got into the meat of it yet, but yeah it seems like they have a similar approach to OO code.  Looks like a good book so far.

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