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What's the difference between cond1 and cond2 parameters? Can they be swapped? If cond1 and cond2 are booleans, they're almost indecipherable at the call site. Why not cond1 && cond2 (or symbolic equivalent)?

Abstracting away the gruntwork of your connection factory and your connection condition factory into a couple of separate routines - those are resuable bits of code, they'll let you write this code at a higher level of abstraction using reusable abstractions. But pushing the ugly wiring into a non-reusable black box and pretending it's better design - bullshit.



Good point on the conditions. I wanted to avoid pasting prod code I'd been working on and was trying to make an example: I generally use this for things like logging.

It's best when:

1) The logic is very specific to the situation and isn't reusable 2) Isn't important to the function's api contract.




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