Comments on: 3 Value Checkbox with JQuery http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/03/24/3-value-checkbox-with-jquery/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:55:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/03/24/3-value-checkbox-with-jquery/#comment-8617 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:46:27 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/03/24/3-value-checkbox-with-jquery/#comment-8617 [quote post="2353"]There is a lot to say about code modularity, but if I’m wasting time hunting down a 5 line function, I’m going to be mad.[/quote] Heh, been there, done that. Bonus points if it's a global function called a() which gets overloaded in 7 different places, and the real function is buried under many levels of dependencies (ie. A imports B which imports C and etc - and a() is conveniently located in Z on the bottom of this linked list). Spaghetti code FTW. :mrgreen:

There is a lot to say about code modularity, but if I’m wasting time hunting down a 5 line function, I’m going to be mad.

Heh, been there, done that. Bonus points if it’s a global function called a() which gets overloaded in 7 different places, and the real function is buried under many levels of dependencies (ie. A imports B which imports C and etc - and a() is conveniently located in Z on the bottom of this linked list).

Spaghetti code FTW. mrgreen

]]> by: jambarama http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/03/24/3-value-checkbox-with-jquery/#comment-8582 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:41:47 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/03/24/3-value-checkbox-with-jquery/#comment-8582 The second version is more readable. I've been finding compactness is more and more relevant to readability than I ever thought. That thought has reduced my commenting by a large amount. When I'm reading someone else's code (which is most of the time I'm reading code now) and I want to see a function - scrolling, and searching is the worst way. I just want to read it through like a book, and the more of the code I can see at once, the faster I can read it. There is a lot to say about code modularity, but if I'm wasting time hunting down a 5 line function, I'm going to be mad. Excellent work. If I had written both iterations, I'd be awfully proud of the second block. The second version is more readable. I’ve been finding compactness is more and more relevant to readability than I ever thought. That thought has reduced my commenting by a large amount. When I’m reading someone else’s code (which is most of the time I’m reading code now) and I want to see a function - scrolling, and searching is the worst way. I just want to read it through like a book, and the more of the code I can see at once, the faster I can read it. There is a lot to say about code modularity, but if I’m wasting time hunting down a 5 line function, I’m going to be mad.

Excellent work. If I had written both iterations, I’d be awfully proud of the second block.

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