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Law of Demeter comparison table

Subject mean make is an instance of formulate by is a kind of state is a subtopic of has definition

rule principle A principle that should almost always be applied

Law of Demeter that a method should only access data passed as arguments, linked via associations, or obtained via calls to operations on other neighbouring data in the context of software design incremental development much easier rule a team from Northeastern University in Boston only talk to your immediate friends 6.7 - The Delegation Pattern

Subject	mean	make	is an instance of	formulate by	is a kind of	state	is a subtopic of	has definition
rule					principle			A principle that should almost always be applied
Law of Demeter	that a method should only access data passed as arguments, linked via associations, or obtained via calls to operations on other neighbouring data in the context of software design	incremental development much easier	rule	a team from Northeastern University in Boston		only talk to your immediate friends	6.7 - The Delegation Pattern

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