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code smells

code smells is the plural of code smell.

Meaning of code smell

Noun

code smell (plural code smells)

  1. Anything in a program's source code that suggests the presence of a design problem.
    • A well-known code smell is as follows: a function should do one thing.2021, Christian Clausen, Five Lines of Code: How and when to Refactor, Manning, →ISBN, page 4

Questions about code smells

What is code smells the plural of?
Code smells is the plural of code smell.

Words near code smells in the dictionary

  1. code reviewing
  2. code reviews
  3. code rot
  4. code signing
  5. code smell
  6. code smells
  7. code style
  8. code styles
  9. code switch
  10. code switched
  11. code switching

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