Re: "Circular require considered harmful"

Leam Hall <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/21/18 6:04 AM, Andy Jones wrote:
> >
> This is pretty common mistake (I think) and is a signal that your code is too
> coupled.
> <
> 
> This.   In my case the thing that got me thinking clearly about dependency and coupling was POODR ("Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby", by Sandi Metz).
> 
> Short version: class B shouldn't really care whether that object passed as a method parameter is a class A object or not.  It should only care that whatever the object is, it can behave in the right way...

Agreed. The issue came from moving everything into a module before I 
really understood the full level of modularity needed. I've read POODR a 
couple times but didn't "get" it; now that I have a need perhaps another 
re-read is in order.

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