Re: Amount of Arguments per Method
Re: Amount of Arguments per Method
- Subject: Re: Amount of Arguments per Method
- From: Rob Ross <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:36:13 -0700
I actually had to use that method once in one of my very first Cocoa
apps.
My personal rule of thumb for my own code is, when a method I write
has more than 3 parameters I start to suspect there's a more OO way of
breaking up the problem. Huge argument lists indicate a procedural
design, and really feel wrong in the OO mental model.
Rob
On Jun 22, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Roland King wrote:
This still the longest one or has Apple outdone themselves since? 11
args, you really wouldn't want much more than this.
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WT wrote:
On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Chunk 1978 wrote:
clearly simplicity is important, but i'd like to know if there is a
limit for the amount of arguments which a method can handle?
I don't know if there's an upper limit, but I don't recall ever
writing a method with more than 5 or 6 arguments. When I feel
inclined to do otherwise, it typically means that there's a flaw
in my design.
Wagner
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