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OO: Micro Types at Mark Needham

posted by

bee 371 days, 10 hours, 25 minutes ago

Micro or Tiny types present an approach to coding which seems to divide opinion in my experience, from those who think it's a brilliant idea to those who believe it's static typing gone mad. I fall into the former group. So what is it? The idea is fairly simple - all primitives and strings in our code are wrapped by a class, meaning that we never pass primitives around. In essence Rule #3 of Jeff Bay's Object Calisthenics. As I mentioned on a previous post about wrapping dates, I was first introduc...