Wed Oct 17 - Avoiding Code Smells by Walter Bright

[rikki cattermole]

On 01/11/2018 2:33 AM, 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...

Actually it is quite informative. As a code smell it does tell you 
pretty decently in my experience if your scope is too large or if you 
are in need of refactoring.