Tag Archives: clean code

Feb201104

Xavi Beumala

1

Documenting functions and named parameters

Sometime ago someone asked me how I’d pass custom paramaters to event listeners. I don’t remember the exact use case neither who asked me but basically he was asking for something like:
mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myListener, "myCustomParam", 2);
functoin myListener(event: MouseEvent, custom :String, custom2 : int) : void;
While the exact syntax above would not be possible, closures are in [...]

Mar201030

Xavi Beumala

4

Some thoughts on constructor and method parameters

I consider a best practice to keep to the minimum the number of arguments a method accepts. As uncle Bob explains in his “Clean code” book we should always favour niladic (no arguments), monadic (1 argument) or dyadic (2 argument) methods and avoid whenever possible methods with more than 3 arguments, if not possible we [...]