Re: Mini-Tutorial: Mutual Use of Exporting Modules

[Jenda]

If ModA uses ModB and ModB uses ModA, you should sit down and change them both to use ModC instead.

[ikegami]

What if ModA is Car and ModB is CarEngine? There's nothing inherently wrong with the concept. Sometimes refactoring is in order. Sometimes it's not. (And sometimes, refactoring is not an option for business reasons.)

[tilly]

CarEngines can be put in things other than cars.

I have yet to see a case of circular requires that would not be much clearer if refactored. I have, however, great sympathy for the situation where refactoring is not an option for business reasons.

[Jenda]

If ModA is Car and ModB is CarEngine then I understand that the Car wants to import CarEngine because Car HasA CarEngine, I don't see why would CarEngine import Car. Even if it later keeps a IsIn reference.

The concept makes about as much sense as multiple inheritance. It looked like a good idea at first, but it causes too many subtle and hard to debug problems. Which is why things like mixins were invented. Though of course it means a bit of refactoring, instead of merging two classes and hoping for the best.