Re: Literate style, making code more readable or going overboard?

Olof Bjarnason wrote:
>> I find this to be as readable, and less error prone. (What if someone
>> forgot about the method and the need to make both checks?) With
>> collections, the Null Object Pattern is free--you just return an empty
>> collection.
>>
> 
> To continue on that line of thinking, what is the operation contained within
> the block..? Maybe it should be an operation inside the adminUsers object?
> 
> adminUsers.ApplyOperation()
> 
> Then we avoid the 'if' altogether.

I like that, Olof.

  - George

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