How can I avoid repeating code in a conditional?

[Michael_Morris]

@TomB

That said, the scope for writing good procedural code is a lot narrower than the scope for writing good OO code simply because OO offers features/tools that can improve the code that procedural just doesn’t have. (Encapsulation and Polymorphism being the main ones) and there aren’t many situations where given the choice, procedural code is the better option.

I’d say that scope is roughly 20 executed lines, more or less. Anything past that and it becomes increasingly difficult to justify not using objects.

Another way to think of it is this, if the whole task could be covered by a class with a single method it’s probably better off being left as a straight procedure.