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+ | ====== Mental Grouping ====== | ||
+ | ===== Meaning 1 ===== | ||
+ | ==== Alternative Terms ==== | ||
+ | /*i.e. alternative names meaning the same thing*/ | ||
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+ | ==== Definition ==== | ||
+ | **Mental grouping** is an activity which is sometimes necessary in order to understand code. You do it when you try to find out what a group of statements does. | ||
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+ | ==== Description ==== | ||
+ | If you read code several statements may belong together and have a combined purpose. If these lines aren't already grouped syntactically by having a method with a fitting name, the reader of the code will inevitably create this missing abstraction while reading the code. This is necessary for understanding. | ||
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+ | On the other hand the necessity to do mental grouping is a deficiency of the code. If the grouping would manifest as a syntactic structure like a method, the code would be easier to understand. | ||
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+ | The same holds for bigger structures, so any concept which is needed for understanding but not physically represented as a variable, a method, a class, a package, etc. requires the reader to do mental grouping each time the code is read. | ||
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+ | ==== Examples ==== | ||
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+ | ==== Alternative Definitions ==== | ||
+ | /*i.e. slightly different definitions for basically the same thing*/ | ||
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+ | ==== See Also ==== | ||
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+ | * The contrary activity is [[mental inlining]] | ||
+ | * [[principles: | ||
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+ | ==== Further Reading ==== | ||
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+ | ===== Other Meanings ===== | ||
+ | /*i.e. the same term referring to something different; put short mentions here or better add more detailed descriptions as additional sections */ | ||
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+ | ===== Discussion ===== | ||
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+ | Discuss this wiki article and the term on the corresponding [[talk: |
glossary/mental_grouping.txt · Last modified: 2014-06-30 23:33 by christian