tight.txt

Associated article: Insidious Tight Coupling

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Published source code accompanying the article by Bil Lewis in which he discusses insidious tight coupling, where, unknown to the compiler, one module depends on another. This can lead to overly complex development.

					Insidious Tight Coupling
by Bil Lewis

Example 1:

(a)

class Person { 
   int age;
   public int getAge() {return age;}
}

(b) 

class Person { 
   int birthYear;
   public int getAge() {return thisYear - birthYear;}
}




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