Technique
The standard way to assure functional design is to review the description of a module. If the description includes conjunctions such as "and" or "or", then the design has more than one responsibility, and is therefore likely to have side effects. The responsibilities need to be divided into several modules in order to achieve a functional design.
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“In love as in art, good technique helps.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
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