Software Design: Tidy First?

Thinkies

Reverse Phrase

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Kent Beck
Aug 22, 2023
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This Thinkie is a little more involved. I’ll start with an example. One of my more popular tweets goes:

This is one of those “How did you think of that?” moments. Here. I’ll explain exactly how I thought of that—the Reverse Phrase Thinkie.

Pattern: a phrase with 2 symmetric parts (sorry if this is imprecise—I’m still working on the description).

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