Comments on: private methods are stupid http://thatmattbone.com/2008/12/private-methods-are-stupid/ Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter Nabicht http://thatmattbone.com/2008/12/private-methods-are-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Peter Nabicht Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:47:23 +0000 http://thatmattbone.com/?p=115#comment-170 I agree whole-heartedly. There are places I've used private functions in the past and now I chastise myself now for doing so. To add to your case that using private functions to "protect" code is just plain silly: properly written unit tests do more to protect the code. As long as the unit tests work for the replacement of the function then the original intent and functionality of the code is protected. I agree whole-heartedly. There are places I’ve used private functions in the past and now I chastise myself now for doing so.

To add to your case that using private functions to “protect” code is just plain silly: properly written unit tests do more to protect the code. As long as the unit tests work for the replacement of the function then the original intent and functionality of the code is protected.

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