[bdavisx]

Actually, if you are inlining, he says: "you should be made constantly aware of the full horror of what you are doing."

I wouldn't say he's in favor of it, he actually appears to be advocating for a pure FP approach. But if you have to, inlining is OK, with the quoted caveat.

[kaoD]

That's literally the first paragraph in the article, keep reading. Also, I think you misunderstood it.

> if you are going to make a lot of state changes, having them all happen inline does have advantages; you should be made constantly aware of the full horror of what you are doing.

The horror he refers to is not inlining, it's dealing with stateful logic. If you are doing state it's better to be aware of the horror making it explicit by inlining rather than hiding the state changes via passing and receiving in functions.

I'm pretty sure he's advocating for inlining one-off functions.

[bdavisx]

I agree and disagree with you :). Yes, I agree, he's advocating in-lining one-off functions, and I can see both points of view from that.

Having said that, how often do you have a large method where it isn't modifying a lot of state? I guess it depends on the context like a lot of things, but it seems like that's what is happening in the code I deal with (large methods changing state as well as having a lot of dependencies).

But the "article" isn't an article exactly, it's a commentary of an email that's 7 years old. The original email seems to completely advocate in-lining; the "article" part backtracks somewhat, and that's what my comment was around. I'm not always the clearest in my writing though.