Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about several anti-patterns in Julia programming. When we went over details for each anti-pattern, we also figured out how to apply alternative design solutions.

We began with the piracy anti-pattern, which refers to bad practices as related to extending functions from a third-party module. For convenience, we classified piracy anti-patterns into three different types—type I, II, and III. Each type poses a different problem in causing the system to become unstable or potentially invite problems in the future.

Next, we looked into the narrow argument types anti-pattern. When function arguments are too narrowly specified, they become less reusable. Because Julia can specialize the function for various argument ...