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How much work should be done within a constructor? It seems reasonable to do some computations inside a constructor and then encapsulate results. That way, when the results are required by object methods, we’ll have them ready. Sounds like a good approach? No, it’s not. It’s a bad idea for one reason: It prevents composition ...