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Small, well named functions have served me well in this regard, eg. if (theWhy()){ theWhat() }

• davidw 4y ago
  Sounds good in theory. In practice, you get stuff like https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/cache-tree.c#L246 https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/cache-tree.c#L246
  • sethaurus 4y ago
    I can't tell what's wrong with that — could you elaborate?
    • davidw 4y ago
      It's fine. but it's not exactly small, either. It does a lot of different things.
• machiaweliczny 4y ago
  This is something many people don’t do. They just put some weird statements that will change with time and deciphering what they meant is pain