I rather work with a few files containing a lot of lines of code, than with a lot of files, each containing a few lines of code. My window will give me a local view anyway - typically 36x80 or 48x80. And finding something in the current file is much easier than finding something in a whole bunch of files.

With documentation, it's even worse. A module containing 100 subs will have a large manual - but it's only one manual, and you'll have the right manual right away (because there's only one). Not so with OO. If you want to know the details of a method supplied by a certain class, it could be in the manual of said class, or in any of the fifteen classes it inherits from.

I believe in a middle ground. Too large files become unwieldy. Too large class hierarchies as well. And if I have to choose between the two evils, I pick the large files.

Perl --((8:>*

In reply to Re^2: Coding styles: OOP vs. Subs by Perl Mouse
in thread Coding styles: OOP vs. Subs by nikos

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