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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • I realized after a couple of years that architects have the same distinction. They have "structural" and "functional" elements. The simplest example is a tent. It has a functional element, which is the cloth; the cloth is the whole point of the tent, which keeps the rain off of you. But it also has a structural element, the tent pole, whose purpose is to hold up the cloth. The pole is a pure liability. If you could get the cloth to stay up with no pole, you would, but you can't.

    So instead of "natural" and "synthetic" I now discuss it in terms of "functional" and "structural" code, which I think makes the point better.

    • Ah, "functional" and "structural" classes. This sounds much better. I didn't like the terms "business class" or "synthetic class" because both of those have overloaded meanings, but finding the right names is hard.

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