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Discussion on: When do you create a function or method?

 
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Sergiu Mureşan

Sorry for the confusion, I meant explicitly in my project in C.

Thanks for the response!

I do agree that creating functions instead of commenting out a block is better but, creating functions from code blocks that are already readable enough, albeit large but specific enough that they are never gonna be reused is what I think hurts a project. Just this specific case.

From some really good code you extract a function with a lot of parameters that is never going to be reused again will hurt maintainability.

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Chris Shepherd

I guess language makes a lot of difference.
Personally I would never create a function with more than two or three parameters, instead I would bundle them into a class.

This can seen like a lot of work but modern Ides can make it easy to do and it usually helps with understanding your problem domain better.