KAction: kill all convenience methods

Guillaume Laurent glaurent at telegraph-road.org
Mon Dec 11 14:46:06 GMT 2006


On Monday 11 December 2006 05:11, Matt Rogers wrote:
>
> The purpose of convenience methods is to make it easier on the user to use
> a piece of API. How does removing these convenience methods affect the ease
> of use of the API?

By making it much easier to find what call you need to use.

> What about the other 5% of the use cases that aren't 
> well served by the normal version of the calls with default parameters?
> What are they supposed to do?

They write a bit more code.

> So far, I'm not convinced.

Try watching this talk (by a guy working at Google), very worthwhile : 

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/effective-api-design

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Guillaume.
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