Why I found hard to get Internals Vs Peers definition

[Luca Minudel]

Hi,

here follow the assumptions that make it hard for me to get the definition of Internals and Peers as in the GOOS book and map these concepts to those I was using before.

1) As I understood Internals and Peers describe characteristics of an object as it inherently is and so how it should be implemented/coded.
Instead I was thinking about how the object actually is in the code (that time to time it can happens to be legacy code or just bad code).
So for examples it is common in legacy code to see Peers like Dependencies/Services that are instantiated in the object constructors like if they were Internals.

2) The peers stereotype 'Dependencies' in UML or general OO have a meaning that is different from one defined in the GOOD. This caused a misunderstanding.

HTH, Luca

[Steve Freeman]

Thanks. Not enough people step back from the code they have in their hand and think about what they actually want.

S