Re: Mixing OO and DB

Robert Martin <unclebob_at_objectmentor.com> wrote:

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>A function should be no longer than five or ten lines of code. This is
>about as obvious and self-evident as it can be. Are you really going
>to argue that functions should be longer?

     Hmm. It used to be a page. Attention spans are getting shorter?

     Of course I am going to argue against such ridiculously low limits. Some functions are longer. Splitting them up into small pieces can make them much harder to follow.

     I have had cases of snippets, that if I were to convert them to functions, what with all of the context that I would have to pass and handle, that the calling sequence (setup, call, wrapup) could be longer than the snippet. That way lies madness.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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