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When to prefer print over logging?
Generally print statements are frowned upon in favor to logging. But are there any situations where I should prefer using print statements? In a interactive command line application, if I ask for user ...
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Should function names describe their parameter types?
If you wish to perform the same action using different parameters, you can either make differently named functions: public Apple findAppleById(long id){ return repo.findById(id); } public Apple ...
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Linking in code comments (to other unique anchors/comments)
How would you recommend creating "anchors" in code comments, so that during maintenance, developers can easily cross-reference other code comments. I realise that software should be intelligently ...
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Forgetting about the utils [closed]
Let's say my language's standard library does not include TrickyFunction(). Since implementation seems quite trivial for me, I decide to create utils in the project and add such function, for others ...
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When is it appropriate to make a separate function when there will only ever be a single call to said function? [duplicate]
We are designing coding standards, and are having disagreements as to if it is ever appropriate to break code out into separate functions within a class, when those functions will only ever be called ...
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Is there a standardized practice for ordering attributes in HTML tags?
I am working on an AngularJS project and the attributes are numerous in many of my HTML elements: <button type="submit" ng-click="Page.UI.DetailView.ExecuteFunction()" ng-...
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1answer
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How to balance 'efficient' vs 'clean' code? [closed]
I have been coding in python for a little over a year, and I have learned a lot and developed quite a few applications, in the process. I do not program for my profession, I simply program ...
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Is it bad practice to create blocks of code?
In C++, is it bad practice create blocks of code inside some function, such as the following: bool f() { { double test = 0; test = // some other variable ...
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Should one create shareable private class member or keep variable in method scope to pass it as a second method argument?
Recently I had to refactor some legacy code. As in most cases, I had to split big parts of code into smaller, cleaner and readable functions. I ended with many functions, that had multiple, weird ...
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What should a constructor contain?
What should a constructor contain? In both cases, all three arguments are needed for the class to work. Which approach is better and why? 1) class Language { LanguageRepository ...
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1answer
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counting identifiers and operators as code size metric
I'm looking for a code metric for monitor and track over time the size of several projects and their components. Also, I would like to use it for: evaluate size reduction after refactoring compare ...
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How to use Macros in Programming to make code faster, efficient and compact
Recently I was going through some of the source-codes of the best competitive programmers in the world. I found out that those people use a template while writing programs, preferably in C++. I have ...
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Property file, annotations or database tables for storing configurations
Which one is better property file, annotations or database tables for storing configurations related to a program? What are the advantages/disadvantages and what use cases are best suited for each ...
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Negation of sameness is confirmation of difference [closed]
De Morgan's laws: the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; and the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations; or, the same: not (A or B) = not A and not B;...
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Guard block moved to the bottom [closed]
Sometimes it is a good idea to have a guard block: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/157413 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_(computer_science) Guard block guards against special ...
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