28 Sep
2005
28 Sep
'05
9:05 p.m.
Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
Casper Hornstrup wrote:
I think you are on topic.
These 10 helper functions usually make you avoid the gotos or the defines.
One mans ugly is anothers beauty.
Are 10 functions instead of one ugly?
Are macros?
Are gotos?
regards,
Jakob
Oh please don’t go there. Do you honestly think
you (in general) are
smarter at generating microprocessor instructions than a multi-million hour
compiler software?
In some places it does matter, especially in the kernel.
Splitting up a 200 lines functions in 10 helper functions IMO is ugly,
especially when those helper functions are only used by that one single
function. To avoid code duplication I *do* create helper functions, but
most often only for things that can be shared with other code. I don't
have problems with functions with a few hundreds of lines of code as
long as the coding style is acceptable and it is sufficiently documented
with comments.
However, we're going off topic...