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  3. May 2017

Re: Service programs

I have a hard time seeing overloaded parameters as a benefit. They strike me as a nerd's playground and an invitation to documentation errors, confusion, and unexpected results in the future.

Also, it looks to me like the same underlying code gets written, whichever solution is chosen. All that differs is how the code is bundled and delivered.


On 5/15/2017 2:37 PM, Alan Campin wrote:
... 2. The biggest single value to a service program is that you have multiple
points of entry, you can expose multiple procedures. You break problems
down into small pieces. Their is only one point of entrance on a program.
If you want to have the program do multiple things, you have to overload
the parameters and pass control as to what you want the program to do. ...


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