From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2000-12-08T02:41:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6904] Re: [newbie] best practice: Who creates ins tance s?


Chris says:
    >It's funny how prejudiced against objects I still am. "That object's too
    >small to worry with!" ... but it does seem much more elegant.

But the trick is that many of these objects grow up pretty quickly --
not necessarily in terms of power or number of methods, but in
importance.

Whenever you see a distinct concept entwined with something else,
it's probably a new class struggling to be free.

/\ndy


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