Timeline for Splitting up a very large function/program into smaller functions. Effective?
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| Apr 16, 2023 at 12:07 | answer | added | JacquesB | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 2, 2022 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/1554482173503279104 | ||
| Aug 7, 2020 at 17:20 | vote | accept | Maximilian Travis | ||
| Aug 7, 2020 at 17:20 | vote | accept | Maximilian Travis | ||
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| Aug 7, 2020 at 17:19 | vote | accept | Maximilian Travis | ||
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| Apr 1, 2017 at 6:45 | comment | added | Basile Starynkevitch | How large is the function body? A few hundred lines, or a dozen of thousands lines? The name of the function does not matter (except for readability by human developers, which is very important). | |
| Apr 1, 2017 at 5:07 | comment | added | user22815 | I wrote up this answer to another question a while ago: it does not answer this one, but it is relevant. The answer dives into advantages to splitting a function up, and why it enforces correctness. | |
| Apr 1, 2017 at 4:23 | answer | added | Michael Shaw | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 1, 2017 at 0:59 | comment | added | joshp | If you split up the functions right they will tell a story and keep you from repeating yourself. If there's no story to tell and no repetition then it may not need to be split into functions. | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 22:11 | answer | added | John Wu | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 18:48 | answer | added | 9000 | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 18:43 | answer | added | Michael Borgwardt | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 18:05 | answer | added | openai_sucks | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:21 | history | edited | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:19 | answer | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | timeline score: 7 | |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:14 | history | asked | Maximilian Travis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |