Rule against Circular Dependencies?

From: Ken (kk_oop_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: 22 Apr 2004 06:54:33 -0700

Hi. I'm currently working on an object oriented design standard for
our project. The subject of circular dependencies between classes has
come up. My inclination is to have a rule that says they are not
allowed. However, I've been hard pressed to see such a rule
recommended out in the OO literature.

Would you recommend such a rule? Could you cite any literature that
supports such a rule?

Note that any of our rules can be bypassed via official waiver. So I
would consider a rule to be necessary if it should hold true 90% of
the time--and if violating it will create high risk of runtime failure
or cause maintenance nightmares.

Thanks!

Ken

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