Well I wouldn't say the point of the exercise and my point are entirely disconnected, perhaps the point of the exercise is to remind people that the size of the

Well I wouldn't say the point of the exercise and my point are entirely disconnected, perhaps the point of the exercise is to remind people that the size of their increments is really driven by the complexity of the test suite and not by the expected length of the code. It's an idea I explored very poorly in an old blog post: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-02/functional_complexity.md#readme http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-0...