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Girish Budhwani • Edited

I know 😃 but mostly its not followed through.

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LluĂ­s Josep MartĂ­nez

In my experience it's followed most of the times, when it's necessary of course not blindly. In your example the original code is simple and very well structured. Putting a couple of lines of code in a method that is not reused outside this class is a bit extreme. But that's just me :-)

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Girish Budhwani

Example I used is just a snippet. The init() method earlier actually spanned 1000s of lines. And the extra line I have put between each set of logic is so that its easy to follow.

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LluĂ­s Josep MartĂ­nez

If a method has 1000s of lines then it's definitely a nightmare. But moving every 2/3 lines to a method will only make it worse. You'll end up with hundreds of methods. You need another kind of refactoring, perhaps creating multiple classes with different responsibilities.

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Girish Budhwani

Yeah we actually did the refactoring and created multiple classes and methods.