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Comment by rhubarbtree

9 hours ago

200 is my preferred limit, and I think you can find that in a few highly regarded books on coding.

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knuckleheads  9 hours ago

Matters of taste. I don't mind bigger files where it makes sense, and sometimes for the nature of the domain, it is nice to have more things in one file. As well, they write so many comments that 200 lines doesn't feel right to me.

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