On 16 January 2012 15:45, Martin Heidegger <m...@leichtgewicht.at> wrote: > The descriptive long names such as sendString are funny as long as they are > short. I have had occasions > where I wanted to differ between a complex object and a string > representation: sendString(), sendQuery(), then there were two totally > different type of Querys > sendGeneratedQuery, sendSuperQueryFromHell, > sendTheRoomServiceObjectThatNoOneEverWanted(). (just saying)
Probably the proper OOP solution would be to use GeneratedQuery.send(), SuperQueryFromHell.send() etc. I know that it's not always possible e.g. for remote inrerfaces but I doubt if it's worth implementing (hack together) the controversial feature just for very specific usecases. Cheers, Iwo
