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Wednesday, 15 Nov 2006

Law of Demeter

The Law of Demeter, also known as the don't talk to strangers principle of low coupling in software design:

The Law of Demeter was originally formulated as a style rule for designing object-oriented systems. "Only talk to your immediate friends" is the motto. The style rule was discovered at Northeastern University in the fall of 1987 by Ian Holland.

A more general formulation of the Law of Demeter is: Each unit should have only limited knowledge about other units: only units "closely" related to the current unit. Or: Each unit should only talk to its friends; Don't talk to strangers.

Basically it can be formulated like this:

A method of an object should use only the following kinds of objects:
itself

its parameters

any objects it creates/instantiates

its direct component objects

• Wrote irmen at 00:06 (edited 2×, last on 30 Nov 2006) | read 243× | Add comment

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