OOP and XP
20th June 2002
There’s an interesting rambling thread on SitePoint at the moment which started off talking about coding standards but has moved on now to discussing OOP and eXtreme Programming. In it, I try to explain inheritance and the difference between ->
and ::
while Vincent Oostindië explains the principle of refactoring from eXtreme Programming.
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