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This is probably better left for a philosophy section, but the world is not always object-oriented, just as it is not always procedural. Granted, there are many cases where one approach is preferable to the other, and obviously so, but sometimes we have to work in that grey area that quantum physicists so love, where you look for an approach that is the least bad. Worse, sometimes the specs change on us, often after a project is long in production.

FWIW, I have had the same argument with our Oracle people that normalizing the data when the data does not lend itself to normalization may not be a good idea. Their training is in a rote method and to look at data as a series of tables; I learned to program by being a researcher in a rather complex area and having to always account for exceptional data or odd initial conditions.

Just my $.01. (The IRS took the other cent.)

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tbone1
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- Dave "the King" Wilson


In reply to Re: OO: Leaving a constructor midway? by tbone1
in thread OO: Leaving a constructor midway? by jest

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