Re: Java 7 features
Tom Hawtin <usenet@tackline.plus.com> writes:
I don't like the symmetry of new BigDecimalPair( x, y ).multiply(). I
much prefer new TwoBigDecimalsAndAnOpTriple(x, y, MULTIPLY).evaluate().
Or getting a bit mathematical new BigDecimalExpression(x, new
BigDecimalUnaryOperator(y, MULTIPLY)).
This might mean that
out.println()
would be written as
new PrintStreamAndAMethodName( out, PRINTLN ).evaluate()
It is more dynamic, because the operator or method name can be
chosen at run time, but this benefit might not always make up
for the additional overhead.
~~
One reason for my preferences of pair classes is as follows:
A large program can be maintained more easily, if for every
operation one knows where to find it. So whenever, one looks
for an operator on a pair of big decimals, it has to be in the
class BigDecimalPair. The location of the operator source code
can be determined by the types of its operands.
(Ignoring inheritance and assuming that the dispatch uses the
types of the operand expressions, not of the operand objects.)
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