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rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> writes:
> Furthermore: If you are moving code out of one function to ONLY be
> called by that ONE function then you are a bad programmer and should
> have your editor taken away for six months. You should ONLY create
> more func/methods if those func/methods will be called from two or
> more places in the code. The very essence of func/meths is the fact
> that they are reusable.
That's one very important aspect of functions, yes. But there's another:
abstraction.
If I'm writing a module that needs to fetch user details from an LDAP
server, it might be worthwhile to put all of the LDAP-specific code in
its own method, even if it's only used once. That way the main module
can just contain a line like this:
user_info = get_ldap_results("cn=john gordon,ou=people,dc=company,dc=com")
The main module keeps a high level of abstraction instead of descending
into dozens or even hundreds of lines of LDAP-specific code.
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-- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
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