< Software Design
Apparency of purpose is a code quality characterizing how obvious or obscure the purpose of code elements is.
Unlike apparency of semantics which is about how easy or hard it is to understand the "what" of the code, apparency of purpose is about how easy or hard it is to understand the "why" of the code.
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