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General term to describe the anti-pattern where the same concept is described in different ways?
Our codebase is old and very large. Over the years, many developers have worked on the code and frequently refered to the same concept inconsistently.
For example, we have a "number that uniquely ...
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Is there a name for the (anti- ) pattern of passing parameters that will only be used several levels deep in the call chain?
I was trying to find alternatives to the use of global variable in some legacy code. But this question is not about the technical alternatives, I'm mainly concerned about the terminology.
The ...
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Is there a named anti pattern for historically grown software? [closed]
Is there an anti pattern that describes a historically grown software system where multiple developers just added new features to the system but no one really kept an eye on the overall architecture ...
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terminology for upward devolution from modules to framework
Is there a word for the problem of a framework becoming married to the software modules it supports, for example adding methods to a base class that may apply only to certain subclasses or use cases? ...
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Name for this antipattern? Fields as local variables [closed]
In some code I'm reviewing, I'm seeing stuff that's the moral equivalent of the following:
public class Foo
{
private Bar bar;
public MethodA()
{
bar = new Bar();
bar.A();...
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Violation of the DRY Principle
I am sure there's a name for this anti-pattern somewhere; however I am not familiar enough with the anti-pattern literature to know it.
Consider the following scenario:
or0 is a member function in a ...
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