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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Future with Ada
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Marin David Condic <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote:

:  Sometimes a big case or if is a perfectly
: good way of reflecting what's going on. (Think of lots of "when" or "elsif"
: parts, for example.) Things should be made as simple as possible, but no
: simpler.

yes, sometimes, highest speed dfa in inner loops, say?.
my point was that this need not be reflected in "big" if, in a sense.
With inlined subprograms, tag magic, ... you can do a lot to reduce
the "textual length" of an if or case statement, without much or any
loss in performance. At the expense of increased expressiveness,
sometimes :-)

I'm saying this remembering a 500 lines program consisting of one
procedure, nested ifs and some state variables named state1 etc,
no comment, no layout, produced by a human.
Even at only 500 lines this wasn't exactely a pleasure, and it
turned out that the program worked by accident.

- georg