Re: [boost] New libraries implementing C++11 features in C++03

Subject: Re: [boost] New libraries implementing C++11 features in C++03
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-24 11:09:46

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Gregory Crosswhite
<gcrosswhite_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 25, 2011, at 1:05 AM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
>> What are you talking about? There's *exactly* the same number of lines in a local function as
>> there is with a class/namespace function. What am I missing?
>
> Nothing, I think that I misread your argument as a general argument against long functions rather than against having non-trivial local functions within another function, which is why my response was off; Â my bad. Â In fairness you then responded to me by telling me a bunch of basic stuff about programming that I already know and practice as if I somehow must never have heard of these things before, merely because I said that I occasionally have longs function in my code that I don't go out of my way to break up out of a sense of dogmatism that they should never exist, so I'll call it even. Â :-)
>

Right, but as I explained too, in reasonably modern C++ code you
wouldn't be needing to write these long functions precisely because
it's not natural in a rich language like C++. Maybe if you were
writing a program that needed to be a script but doing it in C++ then
you'd end up with non-idiomatic solutions from a different frame of
reference.

So I guess it's really not even, more like you kinda missed the point
I was making. ;)

Cheers

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
http://goo.gl/CKCJX