I have a personal dislike for code produced by copy-and-paste that forces me to read it over several times so I can spot what’s changed after the block was pasted. Take the code below as an example:
After a while we spot the differences:
There cases where spotting the difference isn’t so easy. Sometimes, it’s a simple “!” somewhere in the code that can be easily overlooked.
Anyway, a couple of posts ago I mentioned how I use dictionary and delegates to get rid of switch-blocks, as well as how I like using ForEach whenever possible. Well, we can clean things up a bit in the code above using the same approach, changing the code to make it look like this:
Much better, I think…
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