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Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely (testing.googleblog.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/programming

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DRY = Don't repeat yourself

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ultimate DRY: just keep refactoring the one method to accept hundreds of parameters and do everything.

Add two numbers? DoIt(1, 2);

Subtract? DoIt(null, null, 3, 1);

Etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

invokeOperation(new Object[]("multiply", 2, 5))

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This guy seniors