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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by hono4kami@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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DRY = Don't repeat yourself

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days 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.

[–] Gurfaild@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

This guy seniors