Chapter 8. Design how-to: date and time handling
| 8.1 | Why object-oriented date and time handling? | 153 |
| 8.2 | Finding the right abstractions | 155 |
| 8.3 | Advanced object construction | 158 |
| 8.4 | Large-scale structure | 163 |
| 8.5 | Using value objects | 173 |
| 8.6 | Implementing the basic classes | 176 |
| 8.7 | Summary | 186 |
Applying object-oriented principles and patterns tends to be more art than science, more improvisation than ritual, more understanding than precise skill. At worst, it’s like movie weddings. Real weddings are notoriously predictable and strictly organized. But in movie weddings, shock and awe is the rule: someone makes a blunder like saying “your awful wedded wife,” the bride or the groom runs away, the wedding guests start fighting, or worse.
We want to avoid ...
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