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• long sub names (Score:1)

  by slanning (5049)

  I don't have a problem with long sub names themselves, though that one looks absurd.
  I can imagine using that sub, but it should apparently be broken into two subs, at least,
  if it's doing two things (delivering emails, delivering section types).
  
  deliver_emails_for_products would be a wrapper around deliver_emails,
  if it's delivering separate emails for several products (maybe I misunderstand it).
  
  deliver_section_types_for_users_that_havent_received_email
  would wrap around deliver_section_types:
  
  sub deliver_sectio
  • Re:long sub names (Score:1)

    by jtrammell (6222) on 2007.07.06 7:03 (#56001) Homepage Journal

    Actually, this sub doesn't really deliver any email (the code that does so is not in the lexical scope of that sub). It gathers information about email to send, then calls send_email_to_user_if_not_already_sent().

    That sub has fourteen positional arguments.

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      by Aristotle (5147)

      “If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.” —Alan J. Perlis, Epigrams on Programming