feature envy

noun

Definitions

  1. The situation where one class in a program makes excessive use of parts of other classes.

    • A class with feature envy of another class means it is highly coupled to that class. Any change to the class being envied means it affects the class with the envy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for feature envy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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