Sorry, hit send too soon.

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Brian Hurt <bhur...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Eric Lavigne <lavigne.e...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> I originally wanted to include the contents of the units file in the
>> physics file, but then there would be a circular dependency between
>> physics and io.
>
>
> So what was the problem with splitting units out into it's own name space?
>
> Circular dependencies between modules is a major code smell.  Code where
> everything depends upon everything, or even close to that, is
> unmaintainable.
>

Circular dependencies are then the canary in the coal mine, warning you that
your code is trending (hard) towards unmaintainability, You ignore the
warning at your peril.

Brian

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