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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE
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Date: 1996/11/20
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Date: 1996-11-20T00:00:00+00:00
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Michael says

"    My unspoken response: Yes, I have the Gamma book, and yes, I was
         familiar with the Visitor pattern, but the Visitor pattern
         looked too complicated to achieve what I wanted.  As "bad"
         as "switch/case" is, it appears to minimize the complexity
         in this situation."


One thing you will learn rapidly that there are a lot of people in this
field who are much more interested in fiddling with the latest gizmos
than in writing clearly and minimizing complexity :-)