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dws (341)
Tuesday February 25, 2003
07:32 PM
Seating Assignments in Hell
There's a level in Hell reserved for people who write "as_string" methods that have side-effects.
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Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
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Please, please, please ... (Score:2)
... tell us the story behind this. I am boggled at how someone can think this is a good idea :)
Re:Please, please, please ... (Score:1)
I had joined a project mid-stream, and was trying to integrate my first round of code, but it was failing on odd ways while trying to persist data. I stepped throught the whole bloody thing several times, but couldn't see what was going wrong. When I asked for help, someone pointed out that I wasn't invoking as_string() on a domain object at a particular point.