Analiz...ethods(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one's short but iconic 💅

Analizo::Metric::NumerOfPublicMethods — the Number of Public Methods (NPM) metric ✨

(yes, babe, that's a typo in the module name — Numer not Number — and no we are not fixing it, that's literally the name, do not touch it 🙈)

Also fyi this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, so it's giving community-made, handcrafted, artisanal manpage energy 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the way this metric gets calculated? it's based on an article. And what it does is count the number of public methods of a class. that's it, that's the job 🫶

Here's the article in question, no cap:

Article: Monitoring of source code metrics in open source projects by Paulo Roberto Miranda Meirelles.

And now for the adaptation of the paragraph about Number of Public Methods from that article, so you can see the receipts 🧾:

Represents the size of the "interface" of the class. Methods are directly related to the operations provided in the respective class. High values for this metric indicate that a class has many methods and probably many responsibilities, which conflicts with good programming practices (Beck, 1997).

so basically bestie: this number is the size of your class's vibe toward the outside world — its "interface" — and methods? they map straight onto the operations that class actually provides 💅

and the warning label here is lowkey loud: if your NPM is high, that class has so many methods and probably so many responsibilities, and that is not the move — it straight up conflicts with good programming practices (Beck, 1997). that's a whole red flag for single-responsibility 🚩 blame Beck, he said it in 1997, periodt.

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k bye, that's the whole page, she's tiny but she's doing her best 💖

this was perl v5.40.1 energy, dated 2025-12-13, and yeah — the page header kept saying Analiz...ethods(3pm) because it got truncated like that one text you send way too fast 😭 slay 🦋