From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T09:15:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Any guides for good coding in Ruby?

* Eric Schwartz (Mar 23, 2005 01:00):
> > I can't decide if it's just the example or the whole section, but
> > this one just doesn't feel right to me.  I would much rather have a
> > class rendering itself (who better qualified?), then providing
> > accessor like data for others to do it.  Push, don't pull, right?

I agree with you in this instance.  It does depend on the setting,
though.

> If you have a class just providing data for others to render then you
> can much more easily implement renderers than if you have to modify
> your data class for each format you care to render it into.

Actually, the best way to solve this problem would be to use the Visitor
pattern, right?,
        nikolai
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