Switch Statements with Enums best practice

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Switch Statements with Enums best practice

published 1 year, 6 months ago, submitted by dwhittaker 1 year, 6 months ago

devlicio.us — Thoughts about best practice for handling Switch statements using Enums

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Nice comments about OO_Design prinicples :-)

posted by .NetKicks 1 year, 6 months ago

Yeah that was be.

The best practice for using Enums is to not use them but consider subclasses, state or strategy patterns as recommended by Fowler in Refactoring.

[)amien

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DamienG 1 year, 6 months ago