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List:       extremeprogramming
Subject:    [XP] Re: Metadata
From:       "Phlip" <plumlee () systransoft ! com>
Date:       2003-03-28 17:02:02
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Michael Feathers sez:


> - If you pull things off into a file, that is one more place that you
> have to look to figure out what is really going on and often it isn't
> obvious what will be in the data and what will be in the code.  If the
> data truly parameterizes the application, altering its behavior
> significantly, you don't have much in the way of explicitness (is that
> a word?) :-)

Phase one:

 - contract duplication into a table

Phase two:

 - publish the table to users as a text file.

Phase two is a feature, not a coding or refactoring issue. But phase two is
extremely easy if you obeyed OAOO and performed Phase one, chronically as
you coded.

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  Phlip
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