TOtosh·Sep 17, 2017Submission
Dead code detection with tombstones for PHP
2 points · Open discussionscheb
tombstone
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scheb / tombstone
tombstone
Dead code detection with tombstones for PHP 🪦🧟
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Dead code detection with tombstones for PHP 🪦🧟
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| Sep 7 | 2017-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-08 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 8 | 2017-09-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 9 | 2017-09-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | 2017-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 11 | 2017-09-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 12 | 2017-09-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 13 | 2017-09-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Sep 16 | 2017-09-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 17 | 2017-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-18 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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2 sourcesI don't know who to give credit for this concept, but I'm a fan of "tombstoning" functions that are being removed. You basically replace (or prepend) the body of the function with a call to a method that logs the timestamp, calling function, etc.
Here's an example in PHP from a quick google:
https://github.com/scheb/tombstone
I once had to lead a large refactor of a project written in an foreign dynamically typed language and tombstoning was a necessity for how large and poorly designed the projet was.
In Burying your dead code