Re:Has UML died without anyone noticing?
by unscaled on Monday April 26, 2021 @07:25AM
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Why do you think copy methods are "presumably wrong and misguided"?
For the rest, I agree that in 99% of the cases inheritance and mutability are not needed if you're using greenfield Kotlin libraries. But they are unfortunately often necessary in the Java world.
Mutable data classes are especially quite useful for reducing boilerplate when creating classes that implement the Fluent Builder pattern, which is unfortunately quite necessary if you don't have a copy method...
For the rest, I agree that in 99% of the cases inheritance and mutability are not needed if you're using greenfield Kotlin libraries. But they are unfortunately often necessary in the Java world.
Mutable data classes are especially quite useful for reducing boilerplate when creating classes that implement the Fluent Builder pattern, which is unfortunately quite necessary if you don't have a copy method...