Don't Do That: Code Interface Mistakes to Avoid

By Smylers from northwestengland.pm
Date: Saturday, 12 December 2015 12:00
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English

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A lousy interface on your module irritates users, and could scare off some entirely. It doesn't matter how lovely your class, method, or function is internally — how users invoke it and get data back from it is what will affect them most, whether you're writing a module for Cpan or internal library routines for colleagues.

Smylers presents a collection of avoidable interface infelicities encountered in the wild, in the hope that we can all agree to never ever repeat them ever again in software we write. Ever.

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Attended by: Gianni Ceccarelli (‎dakkar‎), Kaitlyn Parkhurst (‎SymKat‎), Dave Cross (‎davorg‎), Lukas Mai (‎mauke‎), Lee Johnson, David Potttage, Daniel Mita (‎m.dango‎), Smylers, Theo van Hoesel (‎vanHoesel‎), Kirk Gibson, Soydaner Ulker, vytas, Filippo Biondi (‎fedelippo‎), John Imrie, Lance Wicks, Aaron Crane (‎arc‎), Wolfgang Schemmel (‎Perleone‎), cjbradford, Neil Bowers (‎NEILB‎), Pete Houston, Michael Gray, Merlyn Kline, Iain Campbell, Yiannis Belias, Dimosthenis-Andreas Kyriakidis-Karakolis (‎Specchio‎), Rosellyne Worrall (‎rozallin‎), Max Maischein (‎Corion‎), Umair Dojki, Søren Lund (‎slu‎), Michael Jemmeson (‎michael‎),