Analiz...meters(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

Bestie, say hi to Analizo::Metric::AverageNumberOfParamters — it's the Average Number of Parameters (ANPM) metric 💅 and yes she lives in the 3pm section of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, living her little Perl bestie life 🫶

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so the way this metric gets calculated? it's based on a whole article, no cap 📖✨ and what it does is it calculates the average of the number of parameters of the class methods. like, all the methods in the class, how many params do they take on average, that's the tea 🍓

The article in question is:

• Monitoring of source code metrics in open source projects by Paulo Roberto Miranda Meirelles 👑

And here's the adaptation of the paragraph about Average Number of Parameters per Class in that article, quoted exactly because I would never paraphrase a legend 📜:

"Calculates the average of parameters of the class methods. Its minimum value is zero and there is no upper limit to its result, but a high number of parameters may indicate that a method may have one more responsibility, i. e., more than one function"

so like — minimum is zero, and there's genuinely no upper limit to the result?? sky's the limit bestie 🌈 but a high number of parameters is lowkey a red flag 🚩 because it may indicate that a method has one more responsibility, i.e. more than one function. it's giving "this method is doing too much" energy 💀

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mwah 💖 tysm for reading, fr fr. this page was served up by perl v5.40.1 and dated 2025-12-13, and it's part of the Analiz...meters(3pm) manual — go off, you understood the assignment 👑✨🦋