SOLID

I’ve been pondering properties of self-documenting code. Comparing self-documenting properties against SOLID lead me to realize Information Hiding, or conceptual scope, is a central theme of SOLID.

Dependency Injection has gained popularity in recent years. This is good, but Dependency Injection does not enjoy the full benefit of Dependency Inversion perscribed by the SOLID principles. This post will clarify the difference and some of the addition power enjoyed by Dependency Inversion.

This is a throw back to one of my earlier wrestlings with the Open-Closed principle and writing extensible frameworks. The goal is to shed some light on an important realization that let me to understanding the Open-Closed Principle.