alt Hacker NewsWhat's the smallest unit of functionality to which your principle applies?
For example, each comment on HN has a line on top that contains buttons like "parent", "prev", "next", "flag", "favorite", etc. depending on context. Suppose I might one day want to remove the "flag" functionality. Should each button be its own file? What about the "comment header" template file that references each of those button files?
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sverhagen • today at 12:52 PM
Maybe the buttons shouldn't be their own files, but the backend functionality certainly could be. I don't do this, but I like the idea.
I think that if you continue along the logical progression of the parent poster, then maybe the smaller units of functionality would be represented by simple ranges of lines of text. Given that, deleting a single button would ideally mean a single contiguous deletion from a file, versus deleting many disparate lines.