> If a method is long to read from top to bottom, the answer isn't always splitting it into 5 smaller ones, sometimes life just has inherent complexity.
Yes! This.
I find it much easier to parse a long function where I can scroll down it and just read it top to bottom, then having a function which calls out to lots of other functions and I'm jumping around the code base, back and forward.
Just reading the long function top to bottom, where I can very easily just scroll up a bit is so much easier to keep in my head.
Even worse is when you go to definition on the method and you get 5 options, and you have to figure out which one would actually get called given the current path through.
Yes! This.
I find it much easier to parse a long function where I can scroll down it and just read it top to bottom, then having a function which calls out to lots of other functions and I'm jumping around the code base, back and forward.
Just reading the long function top to bottom, where I can very easily just scroll up a bit is so much easier to keep in my head.
Even worse is when you go to definition on the method and you get 5 options, and you have to figure out which one would actually get called given the current path through.