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Tell, Don't Ask: A Cleaner OOP Principle

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

The 'Tell Don't Ask' principle shifts responsibility from external code to objects themselves. Instead of querying an object's state and acting on it, you tell the object what to do. This reduces code duplication and improves encapsulation by keeping decision logic inside the object.

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A solid reminder of OOP fundamentals, but hardly new—this principle has been around for decades and is standard in well-designed codebases.
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