On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:17 AM, spir <denis.s...@free.fr> wrote: > Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoob...@gmail.com> dixit: > > > I'd say my personal hard-limit for functions before I start refactoring > is > > probably around 150-200 lines. But it's rare that functions get that > long > > anyway. > > ! > > Aside questions of personal style & taste, _I_ could not hold such long > funcs. Far too much to manage for my head, about unmaintainable for me. > > My common limit is about one editor screen (~ 35 lines), comments included, > which reveals not only practicle, but also about what my head is able to > cope with at once. And my programming style rather leans toward clarity (--> > low code density), meaning that 1 line of a "smart" coder may map to 2 or 3 > of mine. An absolute limit would be about 2 screens. > > To sum up: > 150 lines by luke > * 2 (density) > * 2 (comments) > = 600 lines by myself >
The 150-200 lines was including comments and everything else. And I just meant that is the point where I would be forced to refactor. For shorter functions that are unclear I would refactor before I got to that many lines. But like I said, most functions I write just tend to be naturally much shorter than that anyway. I was just trying to point out that there is a point where you are forced to refactor just because of the size, but before that point, refactoring may actually make your functions more confusing and harder to follow. It's a situational thing, which is why I asked for code originally. -Luke
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