In Robert Martin’s “a.k.a Uncle Bob” Clean Code book, he classifies Niladic functions (that have Zero arguments) as the best well behaved functions that are ideal to write and deal with; Monadic and Dyadic functions (that have 1 and 2 arguments respectively) comes as a second best. Anything Polyadic (with more than three arguments) is just pure evil and requires justification.
I wonder though how he would feel about a function with 55 arguments!! The following is just the signature of this function
(Int32,Int32,String,Int32,Int32,String,Int32,Int32,String,Int32 ,String,String,String,Int32,Int32,String,Int32,String,Int32,String ,Int32,String,Int32,Int32,Int32,DateTime,DateTime,String,String ,DateTime,DateTime,String,String,DateTime,DateTime,String,String ,String,String,String,Decimal,Decimal,Decimal,Decimal,Decimal,Decimal ,Int32,Int32,Int32,Int32,Int32,Int32,String,Int32,String)
If I were to meet that developer who wrote that function, I would simply ask, WTF were you thinking!?
May we survive the coding horrors yet another day!
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