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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Kent Beck

In the point about structure vs. behavior, you close with a statement that might lead some readers down an unintended path: "Separating behavior from structure changes creates value." I can see how some might interpret this as unconditional advice to separate structure from behavior; hopefully that's not the intended advice (most systems don't need to head in the direction of a bunch of structs/DTOs and util functions with no associated state).

I had to re-read that paragraph to understand that you were advising "Separating behavior _changes_ from structure changes creates value." Very different thing to separate the changes than to separate the code elements themselves.

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Good catch. Thank you 🙏

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