Antipattern: The Verbose Constructor
Constructors, as like any other method, should have as less parameters as possible but as much as needed. Obvious. The constructor should only allow setting vital information for the object (if the object has a name, there is a good chance, that the name is the parameter of the class’ constructor because it is considered vital). And the ease of use depends heavily whether the parameters passed can be intuitively distinguished by looking at there values. As well when the code is written first time as for maintaining it for the rest of your life.
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