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Re:The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free ... by WalterBright on Sunday May 29, 2022 @12:07PM (#31550239)
> You realize that it was so trivial that there was no need for a library in the first place.

I struggle with that all the time. Libraries always tend to accumulate such trivia. My litmus test for it is if the documentation has more lines than the code.

I hate libraries that are a mile wide and an inch deep.

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Re:The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free ... by Viliam1234 on Sunday May 29, 2022 @04:25PM (#31552574)
> My litmus test for it is if the documentation has more lines than the code.

Not sure I am understanding this correctly. Would undocumented libraries be the best or the worst according to this metric?

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Re:The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free ... by sagarm on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:01PM (#31561034)
Documentation substantially longer than the implementation can mean the abstraction/interface is more complex than simply reimplementing for a specific use case would have been.

Sometimes you want a library anyway in these circumstances though, since the expertise required for the short implementation might be significant.

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