Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

I agree, it's very seldom a method should be longer than 20 lines, and optimally around 6 lines. Any method over 50+ lines should require a long hard look if there isn't a way to simplify it. Inlining everything only gets messy.

I would say that if you have a method composed of many methods you might want to encompass that into a separate class. That way you have everything needed to look at that method nicely in one place rather than interwoven with another class.

Depends on the scope of the method though, you want neither a blob nor a poltergeist.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: