20 sats \ 1 reply \ @mbrochh1 3 Sep \ parent \ on: Greppability is an underrated code metric tech
Not quite. A codebase that is very anal about DRY (like the first example about shipping_address in the article) can still be perfectly readable, and yet it is not greppable.
I see, it's a concise example. If the variable is to be used repeatedly, not writing its complete name at each occurrence is a dependency time-bomb. I guess in my case I didn't considered that because I never do that, so "readability" is enough, but you are right, greppability is also needed for an overall robust result.
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