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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
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01647608
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>Hi Dimitry,
>
>I remember asking myself whether I should:
>1) let the list of parameters of a central routine of a complex to grow massively,
>2) re-organised the code with some sort of "state-object" (yep just a plain old custom object).
>
>I was in a hurry and decided to stick to solution 1). I can certainly say that I was wrong. Passing a pretty large number of parameters ? Possibly that's the the time to incorporate at least ONE "state-object" resource to be passed as a single parameter possibly along with other parameters that may be kept as standalone atomic parameters. It both improves the reading and reduce the clutter.
>
>all this IMVHO of course, Daniel
Thank you for your input, Daniel.
>
>I remember asking myself whether I should:
>1) let the list of parameters of a central routine of a complex to grow massively,
>2) re-organised the code with some sort of "state-object" (yep just a plain old custom object).
>
>I was in a hurry and decided to stick to solution 1). I can certainly say that I was wrong. Passing a pretty large number of parameters ? Possibly that's the the time to incorporate at least ONE "state-object" resource to be passed as a single parameter possibly along with other parameters that may be kept as standalone atomic parameters. It both improves the reading and reduce the clutter.
>
>all this IMVHO of course, Daniel
Thank you for your input, Daniel.
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"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham