Re:Some obscure C features
by qznc on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:19AM
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> I couldn't find where each command was being registered in the central parser.
This is the reason why I do not like such tricks. This obviously hurts maintainability and probably portability. Is the tradeoff really worth it? Plain stupid registration is just a single line. KISS.
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" –Brian Kernighan
This is the reason why I do not like such tricks. This obviously hurts maintainability and probably portability. Is the tradeoff really worth it? Plain stupid registration is just a single line. KISS.
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" –Brian Kernighan