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copied!<p>millimoose gave a great answer. It's especially good because it's the right answer for any programming problem :)</p> <p>I would just like to elaborate a bit. When dealing with scenarios like this, the following conditions hold:</p> <ol> <li>Decoupling comes with its own cost.</li> <li>No code will be perfect since you likely won't get all the time you want to work on it.</li> <li>It's not the end of the world if your code is more coupled than it could be.</li> </ol> <p>So don't look at it in terms of an all-or-nothing proposition and instead look at it like a score. How much coupling are you willing to put up with? How much are you willing to pay for decoupling? At some point there's a balance between design time and perceived maintainability -- keeping in mind you don't even know how your code will change anyway.</p> <p>Have you heard of the book "Event-Based Programming: Taking Events to the Limit"? It's all about coupling: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9CL446IzhuAC&pg=PR21&dq=taking+events+to+the+limit&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bcfLUMzRMcWLqgHi-oHoBw&ved=0CDUQ6wEwAA" rel="noreferrer">http://books.google.com/books?id=9CL446IzhuAC&pg=PR21&dq=taking+events+to+the+limit&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bcfLUMzRMcWLqgHi-oHoBw&ved=0CDUQ6wEwAA</a></p> <p>The author claims that you can't eliminate all coupling, but you can transform it, and coupling should be shifted to simpler classes. Perhaps you can use that as a guide for your efforts.</p>

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