[Webdev] Learning PHP

[Justin Mason]

Philip Reynolds said:

> Russell Matbouli's [russell at futureless.org] 22 lines of wisdom included:
> > Of course. I 'disclaimered' this in :) I've heard people saying that
> > your 'code' should fit on an A4 page when printed out. Whether they're
> > referring to a subroutine, a class or just any code, I don't really
> > know. I think it's still the same principle - being able to read the
> > code.
> 
> Well that's rubbish :)

Of course it can, you just make the font smaller ;)

BTW there's a downside to this current fashion for small functions (esp in
OO languages) -- namely "stack spaghetti": when small method A calls small
method B calls small method C ... D ... E.   If those methods are
scattered all over 5 separate class files, you'd be *so* much better off
with the old "bad" practice, with a 3-pages-of-A4 function in one file!
<flamebait> Java programmers love doing this. </flamebait>  ;)

--j.