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IBM i General Design Standards › Design Standards for Programs › Organizing Programs into Modules › Coupling and Cohesion

Coupling and Cohesion

In deciding how to modularize a system, pay attention to the concepts of coupling and cohesion—only combine related functions into a module, minimize the interfaces between modules; and do not pass complicated directives from one module to another.