Lack of OO support for stateless programming

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I believe the pool is up to $25 from the advanced dotnet group now for
someone to implement an FXCop rule to do this

Cheers,

Greg
"Chris Mullins" <cmullins (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

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"Greg Young" <druckdruckREMOVEgoose (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote
Chris it seems to me that you are NOT looking for the ability to put
static methods in an interface but you are looking for a method to mark a
method as stateless. The fact that a method is static does not make it
stateless.

Very true. I can (and do) write occasional static constructors, static
variables, and other stateless no-no's.

For the most part through, static means something pretty close to
stateless.

Getting back to the stateless issue C++ has a weak form of this in const.

Yea, that's not quite what I'm looking for either though. I've done alot
of C++ programming, and I do miss const and mutable in .Net, but I can get
along without them. I do quite like readonly member variables, as they can
only be written to in the constructor.

The ability to mark that a method is stateless (and therefore thread
safe) has been on the wish list of many for a long time.

I would certatinly like this, although I still want to have it enforced by
base classes and/or interface definitions.

Ah well, perhaps C# 4.0 will have it...

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Chris Mullins, MCSD.Net, MCPD:Enterprise
http://www.coversant.net/blogs/cmullins

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On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:24:21 -0400, "Greg Young"
<druckdruckREMOVEgoose (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

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Getting back to the stateless issue C++ has a weak form of this in const.

Well, if you're being pedantic about "stateless" I would have to say
that C++ const is no such thing. It does not _modify_ a state but it
can still _access_ a state. Since another function might modify that
state while the const function is reading it, this also means that a
const function is not per se thread-safe.
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