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@nickappleton The Two's Complement podcast had an episode titled "Copypasta" late last year on when it's better to copy code and when you should reach for referencing a shared function. Can recommend. It offers some good rules of thumb.

@uliwitness thanks - I’ll check it out

I think it’s pretty hard to come up with rules that always apply but I do think size plays a part: duplicating small things seems to be a win mostly. Where what “small” is will be defined by the maintainer.

@nickappleton Yeah, that rings true. The smaller something is, the more likely it is that it's something that should be copied. Partially because parameterizing short stuff means there's not much left of the shared code.

I guess that might be a good measurement unit: Ratio of parameters to reused code in the reusable code.