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One of the most difficult things to reason about when looking at a program is state changes. Which operations can have a side-effect, on which path can data flow, what impacts what? This chapter clarifies what object state is and how we can manage to keep control over its state in a principled way.
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Robillard, M.P. (2019). Object State. In: Introduction to Software Design with Java. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24094-3_4
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