Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

law of demeter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.42 in modern English

Syllables: law of deme-ter
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A design guideline for developing particularly object-oriented programs that mandates loose coupling between objects.

Example Sentences

"An adaptive program contains only hooks into the class structure and normally does not fully encode the details of the class structure. This idea of not duplicating the class structure is an application of the key idea behind the Law of Demeter."
"According to the Law of Demeter, the second approach is better because the summary screen sends a message only to an object that is returned by one of its methods […]"

Etymology

Named for its origin in the Demeter Project, an adaptive programming and aspect-oriented programming effort, itself named after the Greek goddess Demeter.

Synonyms

LoD principle of least knowledge

Questions

What does law of demeter mean?: A design guideline for developing particularly object-oriented programs that mandates loose coupling between objects.
Where does law of demeter come from?: Named for its origin in the Demeter Project, an adaptive programming and aspect-oriented programming effort, itself named after the Greek goddess Demeter.

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