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Archive for January, 2005

Text Subclassing

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
I was just reminded of one of the horrible anti-patterns I’ve seen in working with a template library that will remain nameless. At a previous company we called it “text subclassing.” It’s what we called it when you had to copy huge pieces of text out of a superclass and paste it into your subclass. [...]