Re: Booch's book feels too philosophical rather than practical?



"topmind" <topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But you forgot to mention another change pattern: loss of mutual
exclusiveness. If 2+ options change to no longer be mutually exclusive,
then procedural fairs better. It is a smaller change: just change the
CASE to IF statements. With polymorphism you have to move code to
different named modules, and I give that a much higher change cost
score.

An example please.
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