I tried using a number of UML tools and found that the reverse-engineering capabilities in most UML tools were not helpful for understanding code. They focus on designing needs and reverse-engineering capabilities often just ends up showing huge pictures of lots of useless information. When I was working on the Microsoft Office codebase, I found … Read more
Extension functions are useful in a few cases, and mandatory in others: Idiomatic Cases: When you want to enhance, extend or change an existing API. An extension function is the idiomatic way to change a class by adding new functionality. You can add extension functions and extension properties. See an example in the Jackson-Kotlin Module … Read more
A linter’s job is to make you aware of potential issues with your code, and as you say in your question, it should not have the last word. If you’ve considered what pylint has to say and decided that for this class, the attributes you have are appropriate (which seems reasonable to me), you can … Read more
According to the StyleCop Rules Documentation the ordering is as follows. Within a class, struct or interface: (SA1201 and SA1203) Constant Fields Fields Constructors Finalizers (Destructors) Delegates Events Enums Interfaces (interface implementations) Properties Indexers Methods Structs Classes Within each of these groups order by access: (SA1202) public internal protected internal protected private Within each of … Read more