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Several of these are generally applicable to programming:

* Keep functions small and composable

* Keep functions at a consistent level of abstraction

* Use constructors to ensure objects always exist in a complete, usable state

* Use meaningful method names in place of comments

It is nice to see that other people struggle with functions with lots of parameters + lots of partial state variables. I don't suppose anyone here has a better solution?

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Comments should explain why you are doing something while method names are a guide to what they are doing. I see them as for different purposes and one should not replace the other.

Absolutely, unless you're writing end-user documentation.

I was playing about in Django recently, having written previous views as functions, I wrote some new ones as class based views. I felt that the OOP approach kept it cleaner and inheritance could be used in the same way as currying could for the function based views (but less complex - maybe because I understand OOP concepts better).

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