Short and simple functions (was: Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 22))

"Andy Salnikov" <a_salnikov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

"Peter Otten" <python-url@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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QOTW: "It's hard to make a mistake by having too many short and simple
functions. And much too easy to make them when you have too few ;-)"
- Thomas Bartkus

And of course there is a mathematical proof of that provided
somewhere, isn't it? :)

"Too many" is always opposite to "hard to make a mistake", at least
in my mind.

I parsed the assertion as:

(It's hard to
(make a mistake
(by having
(too many
(short and simple)
functions))))

In other words, it's not that he's saying "having too many short and
simple functions" is difficult, nor that it's not a mistake; he's
saying that it's difficult to get into a situation where that is the
cause of one's mistake.

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