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What are your programming hot takes? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 28 points 3 years ago (5 children)

I mostly agree with this but more than shorter code I value readability, I would rather take 3 lines to be clear to any developer than use some obscure or easy to misunderstand structure to write it in 1.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yep. And three functions is better than one for legibility even if one would be fewer lines of code

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think it really depends. Functions break up the visual flow, so if you need to look at multiple functions to visualize one conceptual process then it can be less efficient

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Yes. I learned this from Haskell. I like Haskell, but it has a lot of very granular functions.

    Earlier comment said that breaking up 1 function into 3 improves readability? Well, if you really want readability then break it up into 30 functions using Haskell. Your single function with 25 lines will become 30 functions, so readable (/s).

    In truth, there's a balance between the two. Breaking things up into function does have advantages, but, as you say, it makes it more likely that you'll have to jump around a lot to understand a single process.

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