Linked Questions

How would one know if the code one has created is easily readable, understandable, and maintainable? Of course from the author's point of view, the code is readable and maintainable, because the ...

A recent bug fix required me to go over code written by other team members, where I found this (it's C#): return (decimal)CostIn > 0 && CostOut > 0 ? (((decimal)CostOut - (decimal)...

I am a home, amateur developer for 25 years and I just had a bright idea regarding comments. Like all such novel bright ideas, someone has probably already done it and there is probably a consensus on ...

Assume we have a software module A that implements a function F. Another module B implements the same function as F'. There are a number of ways to get rid of the duplicate code: Let A use F' from B. ...

I know some languages (C comes to mind) its best to declare as few variables as possible. In a language with memory management like C# is it better practice to continue with this philosophy or should ...

I have a disagreement with one of my colleagues on whether or not functions should have inverse functions available. I would like to know when/if inverse functions should be used. For example, say we ...

I often define variables that will never change, i.e. constants, at the top of a script/module. But recently I've been wondering if it makes sense to define them at the function scope level if they ...

A commmon pattern I've noticed in my Python code follows this simple structure: value = get_val_from_thing() value = mutate_that_val(value) I find myself first grabbing some specific value(s) from ...

If I'm writing Scala functions and have to check for nulls in situations where I can't avoid it (say, working with Spark UDFs and some legacy Java types), is it better to turn things into Option or to ...

We're trying to update our style guide (using google's guide as a starting point) and I'm currently in the middle of a debate with my colleagues about column limits. I believe we're all in agreement ...