Sure. Either way might be better depending on circumstances. It is when rule of thumbs are applied dogmatically the result suffers. And there are alot of dogmat

Sure. Either way might be better depending on circumstances. It is when rule of thumbs are applied dogmatically the result suffers. And there are alot of dogmatic programmers in my experience. Eg. I have noticed some collegues want a functional programming like flow of constant value objects, but they don't think about that they are essentially storing the state in the code path instead. Etc.