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Ok simple question. Have a method called increment(n) on an object called tracker. It’s used to increment tracking id values.

I want to reuse the logic of increment(n) inside another object called childHeight to increment height values.

Can I import the method and reuse it inside another object? No. I can’t.

But if increment was a pure function thats like this increment(c, n) then I can move it anywhere.

That is what I mean by modularity. For oop lack of modularity is fundamental to its design. The grouping of methods around mutating state breaks modularity.

You’re talking about a semantic issue. Grouping methods by meaning. I’m talking about a logistical issue where the grouping by semantics cannot be broken even though the logic is the same. Incrementing height and incrementing ids are identical in logic even though the semantics are divergent.

That is the problem with OOP.



There are multiple ways to handle that.

Class Number {

   static Int inc(Int n) {
      return n+1
   }
}

import static Number.inc

Class Tracker {

    Integer height = 0;

    incHeight() {
        this.height = inc(this.height)
    }
}

class Tracker extends Numbers {

    Integer height = 0;

    incHeight() {
        this.height = this.inc(this.height)
    }
}

Or

interface Number {

   default Int inc(Int n) {
      return n+1
   }
}

class Tracker implements Numbers {

    Integer height = 0;

    incHeight() {
        this.height = this.inc(this.height)
    }
}

Or my pick

class Number { //or extend the Integer class and add your methods

    int num = 0;

    inc() { 
     this.num +=1
  
     }
}

class Tracker { Number trackingId; }

class Building { Number height; }

t = Tracker()

t.height.inc()

b = Building()

b.height.inc()

All OOP does is really give you a way to group state and methods, how you use it is up to you. There is a reason almost all big software is written this way and not in Lisp.


Do you see the problem? What you wrote is the problem with oop. Gotta tear your whole program apart and rewrite it. You had to create new things and rewrite your methods.

With functional you don’t rewrite. You recompose what you already have.

It means oop is not modular. You didn’t create modules that can be reused. Nothing could be reused so you had to reconfigure everything.


Take a look at the Interable interfae in Java if you want some good examples of reusable functions.

It enables map, filter, stream, reduce, groupby, etc on lists, sets, etc

or collections class which gives sort, min, max, replaceAll, etc




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