From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Function Calls by Address
Date: 1999/09/03
Date: 1999-09-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7qp5oo$2un@hobbes.crc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37CFFEA6.921CBE59@magic.fr
Francois Godme <fgodme@magic.fr> wrote in message
news:37CFFEA6.921CBE59@magic.fr...
> Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> > In article <37CEEFFA.7D73F78D@magic.fr>,
> > Francois Godme <fgodme@magic.fr> wrote:
> >
<snip>
> I knew about the nested procedures restriction but thought that no one
> still uses nested procedures. Personally, I have stopped using them. Why
> will I hide a perfectly useful procedure inside another when all I want
> is to spare me rewriting over and over the same thing. Are nested
> procedures coming from the Pascal heritage where everything was residing
> inside the main program? By the same matter, who is still using the
> 'separate' construct for writing new applications?
Well... sometimes it's handy to have a procedure that would use a number of
parameters that are just locally declared variables within the caller.
Nesting the procedure saves calling overhead, because being nested it can
be parameterless.
As far as separates go.. it's frequently wise to use separates for target-
dependent code. I also use them to keep down the size of package body
files -- e.g., for procedures that have long case constructs, or whatever.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-03 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-30 0:00 Function Calls by Address Craig Jameson
1999-08-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-31 0:00 ` Martin Gangkofer
1999-08-30 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-30 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-30 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-31 0:00 ` David Kristola
1999-08-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-01 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Francois Godme
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Francois Godme
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-09-03 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Francois Godme
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Francois Godme
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Francois Godme
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Francois Godme
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <wcc3dwgb7ii.fsf@world.std.com>
[not found] ` <37E81079.CC2566D9@mitre.org>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Mario Klebsch
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Francois Godme
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
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