Wed Oct 17 - Avoiding Code Smells by Walter Bright

[Atila Neves]

On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 13:33:52 UTC, Stanislav Blinov 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 13:28:54 UTC, rikki cattermole 
> wrote:
>
>> But at the end of the day, it just depends on the scope of the 
>> module. Is it getting to large? If so, split.
>
> Yup. LOC aren't a particulalry informative metric. 
> Documentation, comments, unit tests, blanks, all contribute to 
> it. Split by scope, by concept, by responsibility, by any 
> implementation-relevant metric, not by LOC. As the joke goes, 
> your word processor is doomed to fail once it also starts 
> sending out emails...

This is why the only measure is SLOC, not total lines, and one 
can measure SLOC easily with `dscanner --sloc` (for other 
languages I use sloccount). It probably counts unit tests though, 
which is unfortunate, but since my tests are always out-of-tree 
these days anyway...