News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Functions Should Be Short And Sweet, But Why?. Parent comment

Re:Functions Should Be Short And Sweet, But Why? by mattmanser on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @04:23AM (#7101660)
Best way I've seen code like this described is Holographic code:

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/01/09/holographic-source-...

It's as much a nightmare to work with as overly coupled code is.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Functions Should Be Short And Sweet, But Why? by agumonkey on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @06:39AM (#7102016)
Funny, I've seen explanations like that for why natural language is full of redundancies. I used to want full DRY/zipped code but I understand the issues better.
[ Parent | on HN ]