Building Maintainable Codebases with Semantic Functions
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Summary
The article discusses the importance of self-documenting code and how structuring code through semantic functions—minimal, focused functions that take clear inputs and return direct outputs—improves codebase maintainability over time. It emphasizes that how logic is split into functions and how data flows between them determines long-term code quality.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledCode should be self documenting
How you split logic into functions and shape the data they pass around determines how well a codebase holds up over time.
A good semantic function should be as minimal as possible in order to prioritize correctness in it.
A semantic function should take in all required inputs to complete its goal and return all necessary outputs directly.
Semantic functions can wrap other semantic functions to describe desired flows and usage; as the building blocks of the codebase
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