Copyright 2004 by M. Uli Kusterer Tue, 30 Dec 1969 07:58:58 GMT Comments on article blog-cocoa-ground-rules at Zathras.de http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-cocoa-ground-rules.htm witness_dot_of_dot_teachtext_at_gmx_dot_net (M. Uli Kusterer) witness_dot_of_dot_teachtext_at_gmx_dot_net (M. Uli Kusterer) en-us http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-cocoa-ground-rules.htm#comment2 http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-cocoa-ground-rules.htm#comment2 Uli Kusterer writes:
@Andy: Good point, the reason behind the desire to reuse code is not just laziness, it is maintainability. I'll change the article accordingly. Thanks!
http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-cocoa-ground-rules.htm#comment1 http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-cocoa-ground-rules.htm#comment1 Andy Finnell writes:
While agree encapsulation/information hiding is really important, I think reusability is often given too much weight. Maintenance is a much more frequent occurrence (why encapsulation is important) and should be given a higher priority when writing code.

I ended up writing a short article on code maintenance vs reuse:

http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/09/03/its-not-about-code-reuse-its-about-maintenance/