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Is it OK to split long functions and methods into smaller ones even though they won't be called by anything else? [duplicate]
Lately I've been trying to split long methods into several short ones.
For example: I have a process_url() function which splits URLs into components and then assigns them to some objects via their ...
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Should a method do one thing and be good at it?
"Extract Till You Drop" is someting I've read in Uncle Bob's blog, meaning that a method should do one thing alone be good at it.
What is that one thing? When should you stop extracting methods?
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Refactoring into lots of methods - is this considered clean or not?
So, I watched as my colleague complained a bit about a project he has inherited from someone who is, shall we say, not very experienced as a programmer (intern left to his own devices on a project).
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How and why to decide between naming methods with “get” and “find” prefixes
I always have trouble figuring out if I should name a certain method starting with getSomething versus findSomething.
The problem resides in creating helpers for poorly designed APIs. This usually ...
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Refactoring several huge C++ classes / methods. How to start? [duplicate]
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I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now?
I'm dealing with legacy code. It contains some BIG classes (line count 8000+) and some BIG methods (line count ...
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Efficient Summary calculation method or approach?
I have an object hierarchy with a number of leaf nodes that will contribute to summary values for the parent object (specifically: project cost and square footage).
What's the most efficient way to ...
