On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Eb <amaeze@...> wrote:
More to ponder....
I tend to program in a more functional style these days, so you can write much more concise, if-less code ... if you want your data in a collection to be "valid", for example, you flatMap over it and morph the data into a temporary shape that you need (e.g. add some fields, reject values meet some criteria, etc... ... which means I pretty much never have code that validates data anymore and I rarely have if statements in the code at all, because once the data looks like the code wants it to look like, you just let the code do it's thing- sometimes I'll throw in a check temporarily to debug some tests or when we're getting an API right, but then I'll remove those data checks once we're confident they aren't needed anymore...
