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title: 'Write functional code when it benefits you'
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thread_slug: laravel-clean-code-tactics
author_username: samuelstancl
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created_at: 2020-06-16T09:40:51+00:00
slug: write-functional-code-when-it-benefits-you
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Functional code can both clean things up and make them impossible to understand. Refactor common loops into functional calls, but don't write stupidly complex reduce()s just to avoid writing a loop. There's a use case for both.