Separation of Concerns

“Recent wisdom” has it, that protocol functions should be a low-level interface. Of course I didn't go with this statement in my ignorance. Luckily there is always a Christophe around to enlighten me.

This wisdom actually isn't “recent.” It is quite old and you can find it in many object-oriented language libraries. And as one additional level of indirection solves every problem, this boils down to the one cause of bad design: lack of separation of concerns.