Re: Clean Object Class Design -- What is it?

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_golden.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:15:05 -0400
Message-ID: <swr57.116$9G4.39170200@radon.golden.net>

>>I see that Chris Date recently published an excellent article on the
>>circle/ellipse issue at http://www.dbdebunk.com/
>>
>Excellent? Just a terminology assault; I personally learned nothing from
this
>article.

Could your dismissal of the article as a terminology assault have contributed to your failure to learn anything?

>On the other hand, noisy newsgroup comp.object provided some valuable
>facts, for example, calculating ellipse lenghth is fundamentally more
expensive
>than that of circle.

All the more reason to allow polymorphism so your ellipse variable can actually have a circle value and sometimes use the less expensive length calculation. Received on Wed Jul 18 2001 - 21:15:05 CDT