srp

A few weeks back we had a small drama about SRP. There were some smart comments, some stupid ones and a few funny jokes even, like that for example: https://twitter.com/porras/status/220456288017059840 If I remember correctly it all started with this post. I’ve seen criticism on twitter saying that the post shows shitty code, that it’s more complex than it should be, that User class is definitely the best place to put code that creates a user and so on....

This is a post from the Get Rid of That Code Smell series. If you are serious about Object Oriented Design and respecting Single Responsibility Principle then you definitely want to get rid of Control Couple code smells. In this post I will show you a simple example explaining how to identify and remove control coupling from your code. I like to think about that code smell also in the context of SRP because I like to apply it to every piece of my system - whether it’s a method, a class or a whole library....