[Lazarus] OOP - where do you start?

[Marcos Douglas]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Marcos Douglas wrote:
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>>> Things start to get messy when you start thinking about functionality.
>>> So that comes next, and the business classes reflect functionality, and
>>> consequently more susceptible to change.
>>>
>>> Luckily the persistence layers I use are flexible enough to allow any
>>> mapping between data and business objects,
>>> so the above approach has always worked for me.
>>>
>>> I'm tempted to say that working the other way round is bound to lead to
>>> confusion.
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>> Confusion... That depends if you work using a data-driven design or
>> behavior-driven design.
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> Always data. Data exists on itself. Behaviour never exists on itself.
> The moon is there, whether you look at it or not.

So, you use the data-driven design and nothing is wrong with it... but
behavior-driven design is another approach to resolve problems too.


Marcos Douglas