Category Archives: Immutability

Don’t assign a field from many methods

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Patrick Smacchia

For the next NDepend version, amongst plenty of cool stuff, a new default code rule will be added. It has been named Don’t assign a field from many methods. It falls into the category of Purity – Immutability – Side-Effects rules, one of my preferred set … Continue reading →

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Ruling Code Quality Regression

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Patrick Smacchia

A prominent characteristic of the software industry is that products are constantly evolving. All modern development methodologies prone that a product should evolve through small iterations. Internally, development teams are using Continuous Integration servers that shrink increment length to a … Continue reading →

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Immutable types: understand their benefits and use them

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Patrick Smacchia

There is a powerful and simple concept in programming that I think is really underused: Immutability Basically, an object is immutable if its state doesn’t change once the object has been created. Consequently, a class is immutable if its instances are immutable. There … Continue reading →

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