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Yeah that was essentially what I was referring to (referring to your edit).
I generally dislike stuff like (crappy example incoming):
I'm not a fan of this kind of code fragmentation.
If all those actions were related and it could have been just one thing, retaining a lot more context, then it should be one function imo.
If by not splitting it it became massive with various disconnected code blocks, sure, but otherwise I'd much prefer being able to read everything together.
If splitting the functions required producing side effects to maintain the same functionality, then that's even worse.
Huh, I really like code like that. Having a multi-step process split up into sections like that is amazing to reason about actual dependencies of the individual sections. Granted, that only applies if the individual steps are kinda independently meaningful
To adapt your example to what I mean:
This allows you to immediately see that part1 and part2 are independently calculated, and what goes into calculating them.
There are several benefits, e.g.:
It really depends on the context frankly. I did say it was a crappy example ;)
Try to read this snippet I stole from Clean Code and tell me if it's readable without having to uselessly jump everywhere to understand what's going on:
That's what I was talking about.