> To be honest I have problems understanding why method categorization is so > important.
Because I do not like to live in an environment where there are papers on the floor. Did you read the pragmatic programmer book? I dislike these guys personally but the first book is excellent. "No broken window" Why do we remove deadcode? why do we comment classes? Stef > Often I don't care a single bit about categories because I don't understand > them. I often categorize just to make lint happy :) > What is the use? Declaring usage patterns? Declaring visibility? Use as > method extensions marker? anything you like just classify? I can understand > that it can help making the access of certain methods of a class easier. But > that is particular true for classes with a lot of methods. Most of the > classes are rather small. In most of my own developments I would consider > most huge classes a design problem in my code. So I would try to fix that. > And finally it is not easy to learn about them because the browser is not > helping. If you browse through the methods of a class the category pane > doesn't get updated. So even if I want to learn by getting used to them it is > hard. > > I would make the none categorized term weaker by naming it "uncategorizied" > so at least I have the change to deliberately not categorizing my methods > without being annoyed by someones opinion about what is essential. > > my 2 cents, > > Norbert
