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Re:The controller pattern is awful (and other OO heresy) by jayd16 on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:46PM (#36674041)
> You've never seen Java (or C#) code where a bunch of unrelated functions belong to some meaningless class like "Utility"?

Is that worse than the global scope as the dumping ground?

One other benefit of forcing classes is that there's a logical place for private functions and fields. Private state is an anti-pattern to some but it's more consistent design for Java, I think.

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Re:The controller pattern is awful (and other OO heresy) by wizofaus on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:23PM (#36674412)
> Is that worse than the global scope as the dumping ground?

I wouldn't have a problem with requiring everything to at least be in a namespace, though it needn't be enforced at the language level (vs a linter rule).

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