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Is casting a concrete type to an interface and using it if it successful bad practice?
I recently came across some code:
val, ok := i.(SomeInterface)
if ok {
val.Method()
}
The above is Go, and attempts to cast to an interface and then runs the method for that interface against the ...
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Confused about inheritance and correct usage. Should I avoid using members in base class?
I am using C++ , but as far as I understand most OO principles are cross language.
In most of the articles that I have read and liked about inheritance the advice are about :
not to use it for the ...
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Interfaces and Casting
I recently started working with a shiny new version of a codebase that uses interfaces all over for... basically everything. I think all of our concrete classes implement interfaces.
The problem I've ...
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Heuristics/rules for programming to an interface [duplicate]
I am struggling with applying the "programming to an interface" guideline because I can't seem to decide in which situations it is necessary and in which ones it's overkill (or even counter productive)...
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Should every class I write adhere to an interface?
I'm writing a game in Typescript, and decided going in that I was going to try to adhere to the idea of "interface based programming", where you write code based on an interface, instead of the ...
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What should I do with too much interfaces needed for a dialog
Let me start by doing a small summary of the changes we did in our code in the last year. We have a software (VERY big) that is used to visualize multiples underground networks, enter data in the ...
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Pattern or solution for using classes with different interface the same way
What I would like to achieve is to use classes (now two, later more) with different interface the same way, so I would like avoid using decisions based on the interface on upper levels for instance, I ...
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