Questions tagged [overuse]

We have been arguing back and forth at my work place about the use of the Observer pattern for one of the problems. I somehow smell "overuse" but am open to ideas. So the requirement is We have a hierarchy of objects -> an order and multiple line…

I try to be as minimalist as possible. Repetition is a problem. I hate it. When is it really a problem? what is static-overuse? what is field-method overuse? what is class-overuse? are there more types of overuse? Problem A: when it is too much to…

I'll try and ask my question so it doesn't end as a simple argumentative thread. I've jumped into an application coded in C# recently and I'm discovering the exception mechanism. And I've had a few bad experiences with them such as the following //…

Suppose I have a class that has an array of pointers, and I have a method that dereferences a pointer and returns it as a reference. I want to allow the method caller to call non-const methods of the object the pointer is pointing to, but also want…