What is the name of this bad practice / anti-pattern?

Question

I\'m trying to explain to my team why this is bad practice, and am looking for an anti-pattern reference to help in my explanation. This is a very large enterprise app, so here

Answer 1

I don't think it has a name but maybe check the master list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern knows? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_code probably looks the closer.

I think that your example probably doesn't have a name - whereas your proposed solution does it is called Composite.

http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/PatternComposite.aspx