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		sam_lowry_ 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use Your Type System Also validation. In Java, you can have almost seamless validation on instantiation of your very objects. That's why having a class for IBAN instead of String containing IBAN is the right way to do.

codr7 42 days ago [–]

Allocating objects for every single property can turn pretty bad in Java.

A strong enough type system would be a lot more useful.

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