Maxi Contieri

Posted on Oct 21, 2022 • Originally published at maximilianocontieri.com

Code Smell 171 - Plural Classes

#webdev #beginners #programming #tutorial

Classes are my precious

TL;DR: Classes represent concepts. And concepts are singular.

Problems

Naming
Code Standards

Solutions

Rename classes to singular

Context

Naming things is hard.

We need to agree on certain rules.

Sample Code

Wrong

class Users

Right

class User

Detection

[X] Automatic

This is a syntactic rule.

Conclusion

Name concepts in the singular.

Classes are concepts.

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Disclaimer

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Top comments (2)

Junxiao Shi • Oct 21 '22

What's a better name for EcdsaParams?
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Maxi Contieri • Oct 21 '22

Params is an abreviattion, so it is another code smell

blog.devgenius.io/code-smell-33-ab...

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