Here's an article on it, from one of the Gang of Four:
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/designprinciples4.html
Richard
On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Kirk Cerny wrote:
I would still not write it this way, but good point Alvaro.
Kirk Cerny
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Alvaro
Carrasco<[email protected]> wrote:
I disagree. Having a child hold a reference to it's parent (in
composition
of course) is a very common approach in object-oriented
programming. I don't
think you have any problem with readability by doing that and I
don't think
there's anything wrong with it at all.
Alvaro
Kirk Cerny wrote:
But in this case it appears that A has B and B has A.
I would be alright if it was just A has B.
The circular part is where I think you get into trouble especially
with readability, and understandable code.
Kirk Cerny
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