Wed Oct 17 - Avoiding Code Smells by Walter Bright

[Stanislav Blinov]

On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 13:37:07 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> 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.

Well, yes, it can be a litmus test, I guess. I meant to say that 
it isn't per se a deciding factor.