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Re: "perform:" and Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tako Schotanus)
Thu Aug 31 07:48:01 1995
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 10:53:59 +0200
To: David Griffiths <dave@prim.demon.co.uk>
From: Tako Schotanus <Tako.Schotanus@bouw.tno.nl>
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
At 09:33 31-08-95 +0100, David Griffiths wrote:
>>If nobody can come up with some serious reasons why *not*
>>to implement it, I vote in favor.
>
>One semi-serious reason: code maintainability. I once worked on a large
>NeXTStep app where heavy use had been made of perform and it made the
>code difficult to understand because it wasn't always readily apparant
>just what method was being performed. (It also messed up the profiler,
>although that's not relevant to Java).
And, in you own opinion, can you say that the app was designed wrong
and that it would have been much better (easier to code and easier to
maintain) to have done it without the "perform:"? Or do you think that
in that particular situation it was a trade-off between the good, the
bad and the ugly? ;)
- Tako
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