class size

[Jeremy Bowers]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:15:10 -0400, Brad Tilley wrote:

> How large (lines of code) should a class be before one should split it 
> into smaller classes? Is there a general rule on this? How many 
> functions should a class contain? Are there limits (theoretical or 
> practical) that people learning classes should adhere to?

As long as the class is doing one thing (or as I prefer to think of it,
representing one concept), you're fine. I have classes that are 4 lines
long (and would probably be a one-liner in most other languages), and
classes 500 lines long... and that class has already had another couple
hundred lines cut out of it and put into other classes.