Avoiding primitive obsession in .NET

Lost User

BillWoodruff wrote:

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A religious icon wrote:

I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.

BillWoodruff

specific quotes from your-brand-of-scripture is inappropriate on every CodeProject forum for very good reasons. message reported as inappropriate.

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

Lost User

Sweet, Should we report [your comments](https://www.codeproject.com/Insider.aspx?fid=1658735&df=90&mpp=50&sort=Position&spc=Relaxed&select=5917537&tid=5915963) about Sanskrit and the Vedic scripture Bill? Edit: I'm just pointing out something I find hypocritical, if you check your post history you proclaimed your religion ages ago.

Richard Deeming

Wrapping every primitive value in a class like that is going to dramatically increase the memory usage of the application, and potentially decrease the performance. After all, there's a reason Java has stack-allocated duplicates of certain heap-allocated classes. The author should really be using a struct for the wrappers - and preferably a record struct.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

BillWoodruff

You can report anything you want; anything you feel violates CodeProject's ethos. There is a big difference between my comments on the history and linguistics of the Vedas and Sanskrit, on the Mahabharata as drama and metaphysical allegory, and a direct quote from a scripture used as a talking point. I very carefully avoided anything that showed disrespect for Hinduism the same way as I would carefully avoid showing disrespect for Christianity, Islam, etc. The quote (in Urdu) I used from Kabir is poetry. Glad to hear you read my posts !

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

obermd

What, no "stringly" typed data?

Lost User

Bill, It's probably just poetry. My way of expressing myself in Walcott-esque style. [THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD - Derek Walcott - Saint Lucia - Poetry International](https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-28371\_THE-LIGHT-OF-THE-WORLD) Read it to see if you can find that deeper meaning. Might have to read it three or four times. :thumbsup:

Marc Clifton

Yeah, it's called semantic types, and I wrote about this[^] in 2018. :rolleyes:

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englebart

I thought the author’s “fixed” code was awful. Why leave email as a string? Boolean is the worst primitive for this, why did the author leave a boolean? I am trying to get a law passed that all booleans should be converted enums. If I see a class named ClubMember, I would never expect to call ClubMember.isMember(), ever. Maybe ClubMember.getMembershipStatus(). Oof!

Rob Grainger

In a similar vein, the ClubMember type in particular made me wish (again) that C# supported enum types with methods.

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Richard Deeming

Extension methods will get you close to that:

public enum ClubMember
{
NonMember,
Member,
}

public static class ClubMemberExtensions
{
public static decimal CalculateAmount(this ClubMember member, decimal productValue) => member switch
{
ClubMember.Member => productValue - 10,
_ => productValue,
};
}

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Richard Deeming

englebart wrote:

I am trying to get a law passed that all booleans should be converted enums.

That's easy:

public enum Bool
{
True,
False,
FileNotFound,
}

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englebart

Too funny. I used to visit that site, but their security was so bad that I thought I would pick up a virus from the comments. That very meme flashed through my mind while I was posting.