>>Obviously, I'm not Nancy.
Weeell, I guess you'll do. <g>

>> There are several different kinds of cohesion. Functional cohesion means that the module performs one and only one operation to have functional cohesion. This does not mean only one line of code, but rather one purpose.

I'm only familiar with Functional cohesion but I read your post last night, thanks for the info. I still believe there is the question of what the term cohesion mean. At the link Mike provided ( http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CouplingAndCohesion ) gives three quick explanations of cohesion.

1 - Cohesion is the degree to which the responsibilities of a single component form a meaningful unit.
2 - Cohesion is a property or characteristic of an individual module
3 - Cohesion : qualitative measure of dependency of items within a module (from worse to better, high cohesion is good)

The first of these three quick descriptions is what I've always understood what cohesion meant. If I'm understanding this correctly then with the other kinds of cohesion they would have levels of meaning as well, I think?

Another way to look at the other kinds of cohesion, break down the description it self. Functional Cohesion, Communicational Cohesion, Logical Cohesion (and the others that all end with 'al') doesn’t the first word in all of the kinds of cohesion describe a situation? Surely the word Cohesion means the same thing in all the different kinds of cohesion. But then again, maybe not

I don't know what are your thoughts.