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State (Score:1)

by zby (4817) on 2008.12.01 18:58 (#66059) Homepage

One idea - OO makes it easier to cope with state - and this means people write more state-full apis where pure procedural languages would produce more stateless (functional) apis. And state is always more difficult to reason about.
I don't want to single anything out - but what comes to mind is a hypothetical encoding API - that used to be of the form: my $encoded = encode( $from, $to, $what ); And then it became more OO with: my $encoding = Some::EncodingLib::new( $from, $to ); my $encoded = $encoding( $what );

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