Interface Segregation Principle

ISP:

The dependency of one class to another one should depend on the smallest possible interface. (http://www.objectmentor.com/publications/isp.pdf)

See also:

• MaskingInterfaces
• RolePattern
• ObjectOrientedSoftwareConstruction, BertrandMeyer
• RobertCecilMartin, Engineering Notebook, CppReport, Nov-Dec, 1996.

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One of the PrinciplesOfObjectOrientedDesign.

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