@SebAaltonen There is a useful term for what you describe as “entanglement” that I learned recently - it is called “cyclomatic complexity” - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

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• URL: https://x.com/gavanw/status/1080207046580957184
• Author: Gavan Woolery (@gavanw)
• Posted: 2019-01-01 21:00:03

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@SebAaltonen

There is a useful term for what you describe as “entanglement” that I learned recently - it is called “cyclomatic complexity” - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

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@gavanw @SebAaltonen

I see a lot of linters with such a metric, but few developers actually understanding it. They see a warning about a function too complex, and turn it into a tree of nested function calls. The complexity isn’t gone (its worse) but now all functions tick green.

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