• A design guideline for developing software saying that each unit of code should have only limited knowledge about other units, or that each unit should only talk to its friends, and not to strangers. In its general form, the Law of Demeter is a specific case of loose coupling. The guideline was proposed in 1987 by Ian Holland. ← Wikipedia

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