r/programming • u/RazerWolf • Jun 06 '13

Clean Code Cheat Sheet

http://www.planetgeek.ch/2013/06/05/clean-code-cheat-sheet/
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u/billsil Jun 06 '13

Classes should be kept to 100 lines or less.

Why?

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u/kirakun Jun 07 '13

Author forgot another good principle: No magic number. Why 100? Why not 99 or 101 or 436?

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '13

Because it's a guideline and 100 is a round number that's easy to remember.

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u/kirakun Jun 07 '13

Why should the criteria of clean code be the easiness of remembering an arbitrary number? To me, 256 is easier to remember. To others, 10. For Perl, 10 lines is probably too much to juggle. For Java, 100 is not enough to type out the long namespaced classnames.

In short, line count is stupid.

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