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Re: vertical ordering of functions

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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just reading Robert M. Martin's book entitled "Clean Code". In Ch.
> 5 he says that a function that is called should be below a function
> that does the calling. This creates a nice flow down from top to
> bottom.

I prefer to define my terms before I use them. Classes, functions, etc
get defined at the top and called down below. It's a stylistic thing,
but it ties in with what you would do in a debate or scholarly
document; and if you're skimming such a document and you don't
understand a term, you know to scan upwards for its definition.

It's just a stylistic thing, you can do it whichever way you think best!

Chris Angelico

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