Kjell-Åke Gafvelin

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• It Walks Like A Duck, It Quacks Like A Duck, But It's A Donkey - The Problem Of Inappropriately DRY Code

  Posted on Mar 20, 2015 at 10:36 AM

  You can definitely practice SRP and divide one function into two rather than add a "magic" flag and I strongly suggest that you do. And by doing it like that you will actually get more efficient code re-use than by adding a "magic" flag to a function. Imagine this kinda pseudo-c... read more »

• It Walks Like A Duck, It Quacks Like A Duck, But It's A Donkey - The Problem Of Inappropriately DRY Code

  Posted on Mar 13, 2015 at 4:03 AM

  ** Previous comment was posted by accident ** What I think is important as well as DRY is Single Responsibility Principle (SRP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principle ). Since CF is so forgiving and allows devs to include all kinds of code within one page you get business logi... read more »

• It Walks Like A Duck, It Quacks Like A Duck, But It's A Donkey - The Problem Of Inappropriately DRY Code

  Posted on Mar 13, 2015 at 3:51 AM

  What I think is important as well as DRY is Single Responsibility Principle (SRP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principle ).... read more »

• It Walks Like A Duck, It Quacks Like A Duck, But It's A Donkey - The Problem Of Inappropriately DRY Code

  Posted on Mar 10, 2015 at 4:00 AM

  I understand what you talk about as I'm in a project right now where we have this issue now that we have a lot of code that tries to solve every other problem you throw at it. And it's a complete nightmare to try to understand and then add new functionality to it! The main issue is that they have l... read more »