In article <[email protected]>,
Gerald Britton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. You need to call this thing many times with different arguments, so
> you wind up with:
>
> x =
> some.deeply.nested.object.method(some.other.deeply.nested.object.value1)
> y =
> some.deeply.nested.object.method(some.other.deeply.nested.object.value2)
> z =
> some.deeply.nested.object.method(some.other.deeply.nested.object.value3)
I would probably turn that into:
object = some.deeply.nested.object
object.method(object.value1)
object.method(object.value2)
object.method(object.value3)
i.e. make the temporary variable have the exact same name as the last
component of the deeply nested thing you're trying to refactor. If the
scope of use is small and the meaning is obvious from context, sometimes
I'll shorten the name, i.e.
obj = some.deeply.nested.object
or even
o = some.deeply.nested.object
but I tend to avoid doing that. I'd rather be a little more verbose in
preference to being a little more cryptic.
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