From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-01-14T12:46:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Small Methods - a ramble

On Sunday 13 January 2002 09:27 pm, you wrote:
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> Fowler's /Refactoring/ book
> convinced me that I was on the right path.  I loved his
> observation/recommendation, that if you feel the need to put in a
> comment, perhaps you should be feeling instead the need to factor the
> bit of code you're commenting into a separate method, and then call it.
>  Give the method a name similar to the comment you were going to
> write.

Hear, Hear.  This is what I was trying to say on an earlier post.

>
> As you've demonstrated, appropriately named methods really are
> self-documenting, and if you keep them small and tight, you don't need
> comments nearly as often.
>
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