December 01, 2005 - Utility Functions as a Code Smell
Keith Ray says utility functions are a code smell and I wholeheartedly agree.
BTW I often use the Adapter Pattern to wrap a class that seems to need utils until eventually the Adapter grows into a whole new class of its own. I have done this to add utility functions for parsing and xpath querying to org.w3c.Document for example.
Posted by Kevin Lawrence at December 1, 2005 09:48 AM
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