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Saturday, October 25, 2014

PragProg - Decoupling and the Law of Demeter

Ref: The Pragmatic Programmer

Good fences make good neighbors.
Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"

"shy" code is beneficial. But "shy" works two ways: don't reveal yourself to others, and don't interact with too many people.

Suppose you are remodeling your house, or building a house from scratch. A typical arrangement involves a "general contractor." You hire the contractor to get the work done, but the contractor may or may not do the construction personally; the work may be offered to various subcontractors. But as the client, you are not involved in dealing with the subcontractors directly—the general contractor assumes that set of headaches on your behalf.
 
We'd like to follow this same model in software. When we ask an object for a particular service, we'd like the service to be performed on our behalf. We do not want the object to give us a third-party object that we have to deal with to get the required service.

Don’t talk to strangers.



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