Five kinds of static code coupling

Five kinds of static code coupling

Last week I talked about connascence, a measure of the coupling of code. We all agree that loosely coupled code is good, but what that means isn’t always clear. Connascence helps us reason about how code is coupled. You can’t decouple your code if you don’t understand how code couples together, right? Of course, modules of code have to be coupled in some way for anything to work. The phrase “loosely coupled” implies that we want code to be less …