From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2002-01-15T18:30:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Small Methods - a ramble

Stephan K�mper wrote:

> The rule one of my supervisors gave me is: 'All method definitions
> shall fit into the editor window.'
> That was back in the years of 24 line monitors, any I think this
> rule is still OK - in terms of lines.

One that was given to me (read YOU WILL DO IT THIS WAY) was meaningful variables. Which sounds like such
a great idea until you come across...

percentageofvalidationerrorsinthedatabase = numberofvalidrecordsinthedatabase /
totalnumberofrecordsinthedatabase

Anything more complicated starts to become unreadable very quickly (not to mention the effect of spelling
mistakes) I leave it to you to imagine what the SQL looks like, and that very rarely fitted onto a
screen.

Come back x, all is forgiven.