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Learning Functional Programming in Go
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Learning Functional Programming in Go

by Lex Sheehan
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
17h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Use a parameter object when we have unrelated data elements to pass

A parameter object contains only fields and crude methods for accessing them (getters and setters). It is a dead data structure used only to transfer data.

If we are passing a lot of unrelated data items into a function, then what are the odds that our function would fail the Single Responsibility Principle?

What if we wanted to add logic that could modify a data value based on our runtime context?

However, if we have a set of parameters that describe a new customer, we could consider grouping them into a data objects. Something like the following could be considered a reasonable thing to do:

We grouped the FullName attributes (salutation, firstName, middleName, lastName ...

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