Refactoring: Replacing Enums with the Strategy Pattern

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Refactoring: Replacing Enums with the Strategy Pattern

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jeremyjarrell 10 months, 9 days ago

jeremyjarrell.com — Here's a simple way to remove all of those ugly switch statements and enums and to buy yourself a little more flexibility and testability as an added bonus!

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Good intro to the Strategy Pattern

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powerrush 10 months, 7 days ago

This is a very good article. The example is simple to understand and yet also shows off the power available when utilising interfaces. I use enums a lot in my code and for most things they are great. I find they make code more readable but then you hit a scenario where you you have to extend an enum and there's a lot of additional work that comes with that.

John

posted by johnvbrennan 10 months, 6 days ago