I watched an AltConf about API design the other day. I cannot seem to find which talk it was, though. Anyware, the presenter talked about using parameter objects when the parameter list grows too long or is open for change in future versions. Parameter objects can change internally and evolve with the API. You can add or remove attributes, for example, while the API calls of old client code don’t have to change: they still pass the same type in. That makes framework updates a bit less painful because method signatures stay the same.

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