One place I worked at had no coding standards either. The result was code that no one understood or could support. It was fairly common to have 1 subroutine to be 2000 lines! I repeat 2000 lines! What the hell!
Yes, and?

Are you suggesting to solve that with a coding standard that says "No subroutine shall be more than N lines"? What should N be? 1000? 100? 10? 2? Does N include lines that contain nothing but comments? Nothing but white space? Nothing but an opening or closing parenthesis? What if the result of picking an N is that programmers start using nested maps on a single line, instead of multiline nested for loops, just so their subroutines fit in the N line maximum?

I can imagine cases where a single 2000 line subroutine is preferable over splitting it up. There are 10 line subroutines that should be split up in two separate routines.

In reply to Re^3: Seeking Best Practices - does your company follow a standard? by JavaFan
in thread Seeking Best Practices - does your company follow a standard? by meraxes

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