Meaning of Law of Demeter | Babel Free

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A design guideline for developing particularly object-oriented programs that mandates loose coupling between objects.

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“An adaptive program contains only hooks into the class structure and normally does not fully encode the details of the class structure. This idea of not duplicating the class structure is an application of the key idea behind the Law of Demeter.”

“According to the Law of Demeter, the second approach is better because the summary screen sends a message only to an object that is returned by one of its methods […]”

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