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Re: Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Monster Objects

Chris Missal — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:38:00 -0000

Good question. There's always going to be exceptions to the rules, and I think a facade would be one of those.

Re: Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Monster Objects

Zhongpeng Lin — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:00:42 -0000

Do you think a Facade class to be a monster class? A Facade is often big, and it knows much because it needs to interact with many parts of a subsystem. Does it violate SRP? Well, if a responsibility means a function of the subsystem, then the facade class delivers multiple functions to the outside world, then it violates SRP. If a responsibility means a role, then its only role is to hide the complexity of a subsystem, no violations.
Is it bad? Not sure.

Re: Newline at end of file

Edwin Castro — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:04:48 -0000

Old *NIX gurus tend to *always* have a new line at the end of a text file. In *NIX, where nearly everything you do is text processing, you have a lot of tools that can process files on a line by line basis. Having you last line in the file contain a new line keeps the last line in the file consistent with all other lines in the file. Immediately after that last new line character you see EOF.

Other than for consistency and so that your tools work better together, I don't see any good reason for one convention over the other.

I'm personally on the fence on this one, but I think I lean more towards ending text files with a new line.

Re: Newline at end of file

Chris Missal — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:06:46 -0000

Good call. I've actually run into that issue before and had to concat "file" + newline + "file" and so on. It was annoying to say the least.

Re: Newline at end of file

Tsvetomir — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:49:12 -0000

Another benefit: concatenating files (say a header) is simpler with a newline at the end.

Re: Newline at end of file

Chris Missal — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:13:18 -0000

I would agree that source files should be free from unnecessary *trailing* whitespace.

Here's what I mean about the diffs:
http://imgur.com/a/LZdGv I don't want files to show as modified when logically they're not.

You're right about files ending with '}' and I would prefer consistency over "my way" any day.

Re: Newline at end of file

Chris Missal — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:06:02 -0000

But there are two reasons. The two I mentioned above.

Re: Newline at end of file

Hwiechers — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:41:11 -0000

You wouldn't want it because source files should be free from unnecessary whitespace. It's the same reason that people freak out about trailing whitespace.

Of your two points, I don't think the first makes much of a difference.
The second depends on the editor you use, and if you're using a language where your files always end with '}', the second isn't going to make much of a difference either.

Personally, I don't mind either way as long as it's consistent.

Re: Newline at end of file

Iulian Margarintescu — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:26:08 -0000

There is no reason for having a new line at the end of file. There is also no reason for not having one. This is something is can leave with. If only this was the only debate... think about tabs vs spaces and you will instantly not care about that new line.

Re: Newline at end of file

Chris Missal — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:57:25 -0000

Most recently I've noticed it in Powershell, but usually JavaScript files come to mind.

Re: Newline at end of file

Greg Sohl — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:52:59 -0000

What kind of text file? Is there an established convention? If this is a source code file then I've not seen a benefit one way or another.

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Re: Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts

Chris Missal — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:57:23 -0000

We were told they change very often, which is why I put this in place, but so far nothing in 9 days. :)

Re: Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts

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Re: Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts

Kristof Claes — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:53:24 -0000

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Re: Workaround is a Four-Letter Word

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