Yuval Shavit

As I mentioned in my last post, there are certain methods that require transitivity — and that means both objects must agree on a single im...

There's a problem in object-oriented programming: equality and polymorphism don't generally get along. Specifically, extra state int...

Here at last is that rant about Optional<T> I've promised for so long. Let me preface it by saying that I am not about to propos...

I read a nice thing today: the person who wrote it was explaining what they do using only easy words . (He got that idea from another place ...

A recap of where we are with object composition: In my last few posts about object composition, I initially thought that simple composition ...

In my last post about object composition , I concluded that simple composition approaches don't work because of the mismatch between com...

I thought about an "interesting" (ie, I'm probably the only one who finds it interesting) question yesterday. Is it possible t...