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Extract Method

The book has now been published and the content of this chapter has likely changed substanstially.

You have a code fragment (sequence of statements) that can be grouped together.

Turn the fragment into a method whose name explains the purpose of the method.

Further Reading

From [Ref]. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Software"

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