Alan Gauld wrote: > Picking up Kent's message about refactoring, my approach tends to > mean I more often refactor by combining classes into a higher level one, > or reverting a class to a native data type than I do by breaking a class > into smaller pieces. Most folks tend to mean the opposite direction > when they say refactor - breaking a class or method out into two.
Hmm, refactoring is so much more than that. Common refactorings for me are extracting common code to a new function or method, moving an attribute or method from one class to another, changing a functional interface to an object-based one, changing the signature of a method, extracting a base class (OK, I do use base classes sometimes ;) There is a catalog of refactorings here: http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/index.html and I recommend Martin Fowler's book to anyone who hasn't read it: http://martinfowler.com/books.html#refactoring Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
