Timeline for Should methods that are not "pure functions" and that interact with external APIs or hardware be static?
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| Jun 10, 2018 at 8:06 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/1005722959460388864 | ||
| Jun 6, 2018 at 15:18 | vote | accept | adjordan | ||
| Jun 6, 2018 at 8:40 | comment | added | Hulk | Basically, many arguments that apply for discussing Singletons that manage access to external resources also apply for static methods - the most convincing to me is that they allow code to "lie about" (i.e. hide) dependencies softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/22560/187318 | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 7:57 | answer | added | Flater | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 23:56 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | What are you going to do when you have more than one of the same hardware component? Copy/paste all the methods? | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 23:00 | answer | added | Arafat Hegazy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 17:02 | answer | added | user949300 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 17:01 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 5, 2018 at 16:43 | comment | added | gnat | Possible duplicate of Is static universally "evil" for unit testing and if so why does Resharper recommend it? | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 16:35 | answer | added | David Arno | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 16:08 | comment | added | user949300 | "safe and fast because you don't have to create an object". In the network API case, you are certainly creating many objects inside the call. And, in any case, the time to create your object is small compared to network latency. | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 16:01 | comment | added | Greg Burghardt | To expand on @Caleth's comment: Remember that "state" does not just apply to the ones and zeroes in memory. If you call a function that moves a robot's arm, you've changed state --- in the real world --- along with all of the ramifications of doing so. | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 15:55 | answer | added | Telastyn | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 15:53 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 5, 2018 at 15:50 | comment | added | Caleth | "interact with various hardware components", "There are also methods that take some input, do a GET or PUT to our API, and then return a response" -> these are the poster child examples of interacting with state | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 15:46 | history | asked | adjordan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |