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Coding style is a set of guidelines that helps readability and understanding of the source code.
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How to combine multiple functions into a single template based function
Threre are two functions FindMaxDistanceVector and FindMaxDistanceList whose implementation is almost same except some debug information added in FindMaxDistanceList. Note that these two functions are ...
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Which is better: a chain of OR statements or IF in a loop? (Java)
Which code style is preferred in Java?
final boolean result = isCausedBy(e, ExceptionType1.class)
|| isCausedBy(e, ExceptionType2.class)
|| isCausedBy(e, ExceptionType3.class)
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Feedback on custom "Orchestration" architecture
I've been doing some deep thinking on how to structure code and found myself coming up with a (for me) new pattern. The pattern is based on a highly modular approach with a large focus on indirection, ...
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Considering IDE and text editor features when choosing a coding style
Recently, I had a debate with one of my friends on using type inference in C# (var keyword). His argument was that we should stick to using the explicit type names because "even with the ...
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Is it still "feature envy" if the state to make decision or the action to take after asking the state involves other classes to participate?
According to https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/212130/432039, if a class asks another class for the state, and then call methods of that class, it is called "feature envy", eg:
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Is the inability to find code by searching for a class name a reason to avoid using auto in c++ variable declarations?
According to https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/180616/432039 suggested, I know the answer advised "auto" should be used instead of the actual type when declaring variables.
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End method in normal flow versus exception flow
Consider the two following examples:
public Something fetchSomething(String key) {
if(somethingsMap.containsKey(key)) {
return somethingsMap.get(key);
}
throw new ...
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How do you honour the principle to only do "one thing" in a method in reactive streams?
Uncle Bob mentions in his book "Clean Code" that "[f]unctions should do one thing [...] only" and advocates that a method should stick to one abstraction level (I'd call it flight ...
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How to "Tell, don't ask" when 2 objects involves in the condition and the decision at the same time?
According to Explanation on how "Tell, Don't Ask" is considered good OO, I know the following is bad:
if(a.isX){
a.doY();
}
public class A{
public boolean isX;
public void ...
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Code quality: expressiveness vs. conciseness
I've been wondering about code expressiveness vs. conciseness lately. What I mean by that is that a lot of modern programming languages offer features to express statements in a very short manner, ...
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What is an appropriate length for function names? [closed]
I'm writing a C++ class, CBookSpellDef which has the following methods:
int GetIndexOf(const char *psz);
char* GetNameAtIndex(int index) { return m_spellTypes[index].szName; }
char* ...
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Is it logical to not use inheritance because the function is critical?
Our codebase has a typical base-class with a ton of sub-classes. The base-class already has many default functions for the sub-classes.
However, one particular function has the same verbatim ...
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How to deal with very complex codebase? [duplicate]
I recently changed my job to a big MNC and the code I am exposed to is highly complicated, difficult to read and understand. Although it is divided in microservices and runs on local I have to keep ...
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How to be (more) critical during Code Reviews? [closed]
I'm a Software Engineer who sometimes need to review the code of my fellow team members. I often look at the source code and think; this looks fine. I'm having a hard time to think critical about it. ...
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Common practice where to place "is" word while naming predicate function: at the beginning or in the middle?
There's a lot of free or member predicate-like functions (that returns boolean value) in different programming languages and popular libraries/frameworks that have "is" as a prefix, e.g.:
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