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Re:John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014) by leojfc on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:59AM (#12121777)
Doesn’t this imply the need for a new language feature? So that well-defined sections of inline code can be pulled out, initial conditions set in a testing environment, and then executed independently.

I guess this could trip up if the compiler optimisations available when considering all the code at once means that the out-of-context code actually does something different in testing...

Re:John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014) by chimprich on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @12:19PM (#12122612)
Pull out well-defined sections of inline code that can be executed independently for testing? Sure, that's breaking it down into functions.
Re:John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014) by MereInterest on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @12:30PM (#12122686)
I think there is such a feature. In most languages, these are called "functions".