Mantras like "methods should be shorter than 15 lines of code" or "classes should be small" turned out to be somewhat wrong.
So much this.
The whole point of functions and classes was to make code reusable. If the entire contents of a 100 line method are only ever used in that method and it's not recursive or using continuations or anything else weird, why the hell would it be "easier to read" if I had to jump up and down the file to 7 different submethods when the function's entire flow is always sequential?
So much this.
The whole point of functions and classes was to make code reusable. If the entire contents of a 100 line method are only ever used in that method and it's not recursive or using continuations or anything else weird, why the hell would it be "easier to read" if I had to jump up and down the file to 7 different submethods when the function's entire flow is always sequential?