Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.

Post by axcdnt » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

risfriend wrote: post #188

monocasa wrote: post #86

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Hard same. The best organizational level technique I've found so far is to add the rule of three to code review checklists. An abstraction requires at least three users. Not three callsites, but three distinct clients with different requirements of the abstraction. Obviously it's not a hard rule, and we allow someone to give a reason why they think that it's still a good idea, but forcing a conversation starting with…

From where I am, there are abstractions coded for APIs in the layers of - topmost API layer, then Business logic and the 3rd DAO layer. Even though there is only one implementation everytime of these layers, this structuring alone has helped maintaining the code so much easier, as everyone even across teams goes by this structure while defining any API. Can't even imagine just coding functions in large codebases with…

Large functional codebases have their degree of organization too, be it modules, namespaces or something similar.

Post by axcdnt » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 6:27 PM UTC

nomel wrote: post #44

bitexploder wrote: post #37

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As I get older my code gets a little more verbose and a little less idiomatic to the language I am writing. I’ve been writing code, starting with C, since 95. Mostly Python these days, but I try to make it clear and easy read. Mostly for myself. Future me is always happy when I take the time to comment my overarching goals for a piece of code and make it clean and well composed with enough, but not too many, function…

> well composed with enough, but too many, functions. In my experience, code with too many functions is more difficult to grok than spaghetti code. It's like trying to read a book with each sentence reference a different page. So, I try to code like I would write, in digestible chunks. > As I get older my code gets a little more verbose I've seen too many of my previous projects die right when I moved on. Now I tend…

So many levels of indirection is the recipe for the modern goto.

Re: Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.

Re: Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.