Timeline for Switch vs Polymorphism
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| Jul 8, 2017 at 9:31 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 20, 2017 at 10:39 | comment | added | Giorgio | This is the well-known expression problem. If you expect your application to get new data-types in the future while the set of operations on those types remains constant, then use polymorphism. If you expect your collection of data types to remain constant, use switch. If you expect you are going to add new data types and operations, use the visitor pattern. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 8:20 | comment | added | unflores | Though not responding to your original question, I notice that you have the notion of cubes, which while it accurately depicts the board game version of pandemic ;), it may not reflect the visuals that your version provides and thus not be the best name. Infections might be a better name, but it's best to avoid naming based off of implementation/design details if you can. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 7:50 | answer | added | Roland Tepp | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 3:50 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/854905171419246593 | ||
| Apr 16, 2017 at 8:32 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 18:15 | answer | added | civan | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 16:51 | answer | added | Ewan | timeline score: 19 | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 16:24 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 15, 2017 at 16:21 | answer | added | Alex | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 16:20 | comment | added | senevoldsen |
Even though the four diseases is a fixed requirement, you might consider neither of the two options and going for a Map or array "indexed by the color" instead, with count as the value. If there were 400 fixed diseases, would you have 400 private members? A Map makes it easy to query, and you have direct access to total number of cubes using `size()'.
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| Apr 15, 2017 at 16:11 | history | edited | amon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added syntax highlighting, condensed code formatting
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| Apr 15, 2017 at 16:09 | comment | added | gnat | Possible duplicate of Refactoring Switch Statements and is there any real use for Switch Statements at all? | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 16:00 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 15, 2017 at 15:56 | history | asked | Tirke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |