• Fades@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Why are females typed differently than males instead of a base class human with a gender identity parameter? Why would human anything have a function called young?? What would that function even do???

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        6 months ago

        HumanFemales and HumanM both inherit from the Ape base class, it’s from an older java code base. We tried to change it once but it turned out the person that had written had retired and any changes we made just broke stuff.

      • cheddar@programming.dev
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        6 months ago

        The young method returns a boolean parameter. Females have a different type for obvious biological discrepancies that require extra functionality.

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        6 months ago

        Could be a subclass. However, it should just be an ‘is’ method which is passed the array of [young, pretty] as input