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Delphi Pretty Good Practices #5 – Don’t Use Literals

Nick Hodges – If there is a bedrock, bottom line, everyone-should-follow-it-all-the-time rule in programming it is “The DRY Principle” – Don’t Repeat Yourself. This simple rule states that you should write code once and only once, and that you shouldn’t allow the same code to be used all over the place. Or, as the Wikipedia article deftly states: "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system." Put more simply, it means that you shouldn’t have the same thing repeated all over your code, but that you should create a single ...

Favorite? Off-Topic? Nick Hodges @ 2010-06-09 18:03