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From: kcline@optelnow.net (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: Future with Ada
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in message news:<a65jhi$112$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...
> "Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
> news:a65gj5$n73$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de...
> > Marin David Condic <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote:
> > :
> > : Why not for "if" statements
> >
> > Hmm, are you suggesting that you feel comfortable with if
> > statements that span more than say 12 lines and/or are nested
> > to some unspeakable level of say 3 or more? :-)
> >
> 
> Why, "yes". What's your point? :-) 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.

I used to happily program this way until I realized people
(including me, after a few weeks)
trying to read my code were drowning in details.  Now I limit
myself to one level of nesting per function, unless some
performance analysis proves the function call overhead is too great.

It's true that the complexity has to be somewhere, but it's not necessary
nor desirable that it all be in one place.

I find it much easier to understand five ten-line functions
than to understand one fifty-line function.