object.enable() anti-pattern
Mark Janssen
dreamingforward at gmail.com
Wed May 8 22:53:36 EDT 2013
> I'm looking for some help in finding a term, it's not Python-specific but
> does apply to some Python code.
>
> This is an anti-pattern to avoid. The idea is that creating a resource
> ought to be the same as "turning it on", or enabling it, or similar. For
> example, we don't do this in Python:
I would call it "user-mediated resource allocation" as distinct from
"object-mediated" resource allocation.
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MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington
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