FDirectIncludes.qhelp

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<overview>
<p>This metric measures the number of files that are directly included using <code>#include</code>.</p>

<p>Files with lots of <code>#include</code> directives often either have too many
responsibilities or not all of the directives are needed. In the former case, the
file may be hard to comprehend and maintain; the latter causes build-times to be
unnecessarily long.</p>

</overview>

<recommendation>

<p>Split and/or refactor files with too many responsibilities, and remove any unnecessary
<code>#include</code> directives.</p>

</recommendation>
<references>

<li>
  M. Fowler. <em>Refactoring</em>. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
</li>
<li>
  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring">Wikipedia: Code refactoring</a>
</li>
<li>
  <a href="http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2005_01/column1/">Refactoring as Meta Programming?</a>
</li>


</references>
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