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Agreed. When looking at complex code, it can be helpful to expand the functions inline to be able to view all of it in a single screen flow. Switching between too many files and functions sometimes creates friction, making it more difficult.

However, when writing the code if a section of code is repeated more than 2 times, it should be considered to break it out into a separate function with a useful name.

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Unless you’re doing something like performance analysis, I think needing to peek into the definition of a function to understand a piece of code is a smell: it indicates that the function is only abbreviating and not providing an abstraction.

Well a lot of the time when you are looking at something you are trying to diagnose some problem or another, which means you want to be 100% sure of what something is doing. Even if the function provides a good abstraction you might still want to make sure that it is doing exactly what it says on the tin because you are desk checking some weird behaviour and you want to make sure each step is acting correctly

Agreed, but that means you verified that the use site was correct and are now examining whether the abstractions it depends on were implemented correctly.

My point is just that you shouldn’t normally have to keep both sides of a call site in mind at once.

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