also sprach Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> [2008.11.20.1608 +0100]: > What is that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter In the context of our discussion, it basically means that if should_do_help calls do_help, then we cannot test should_do_help independently (without mocking out do_help, which is plain ugly). Not that we have a testing infrastructure (yet) anyway, but... > > True, but then we are parsing command lines. Would you be opposed to > > a getopt (POSIX) approach to normalising/parsing the command line? > > No. :-) Good. I will see what I can do about this. In the mean time, I will just leave things as they are. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@xxxxxxxxxx> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems windoze nt crashed. i am the blue screen of death. no one hears your screams.
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