On 4 Jan 2014 22:16, "Dima Pasechnik" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 4 Jan 2014 22:11, "Nathann Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hellooooo !!
> >
> > > I think you have misunderstood my complaint, as it was about the
function
> > > returning much more specific thing than asked. You hijack a generic
name for
> > > something specific. I tried to explain this by an analogy with
misnamed
> > > NextPrimePower, actually returning NextPrimePower_OF_TWO, which is
obviously
> > > a better name.
> > >
> > > One unpleasant side effect of your present design is that it is
harder than
> > > necessary to extend to cover other projective planes, as you hijack
the
> > > generic name for no good reason, except your convenience :)
> >
> > So if I follow you, you agree to have this function named
> >
> > designs.ProjectivePlaneDesign() for as long as there is an argument
named type="Pappian" which does absolutely NOTHING as there is no other
implementation available ?
>
> Sure I do. The argument "Pappian" serves as documentation here, for the
time being, it's not absolutely NOTHING...
>

Perhaps even better would be to have one more level of classes, i.e.
designs.ProjectivePlaneDesign.Pappian()
designs.ProjectivePlaneDesign.Hall()
etc

Even better,
drop "Design" part....

> >
> > Nathann

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