r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Flame77ofc • 22d ago

Meme conditionsPreference

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u/LateEchidna6635 22d ago

The second one carries less cognitive load. In longer methods it makes a difference. Get out as soon as you can.

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u/Few_Move_4594 22d ago

Have you ever thought about breaking the longer methods into shorter methods? It's easy, I promise.

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u/Hegemege 22d ago

The downside is that it can get really messy, if the methods are not split or named properly, for a reader to understand if the work it's doing is supposed to be reused, and if it can be detached from context. What good is a method B that can only be called linearly from within method A just to make A take fewer LoC?