Convenience Methods

Today I think we’ll see about using Flood erdirectly, perhaps removing the convenience method on Cell, but adding some to Flooder. By taking this approach, we need to be aware that we are making a pretty firm commitment to Flood. Before we remove the flood method on Cell, all our tests and code will have to be using Flood directly. In a large application, we might never do this, and certainly if we had exported a Cell library to the universe, we’d have to preserve Cell.flood indefinitely, perhaps forever. Here chez Ron we have a different kind of purpose. We make changes to our code all the time, because as brother Hill puts it, we are in the business of changing code. Here, we change code and see what happens, what we learn from the various ways we change and change again. And—let me be clear about this—I enjoy smushing the code around to see what happens, to see which moves I like and which ones I do not. I’m here for the fun, and with a hope to be entertaining if not useful.…