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Re:In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (2013) by CuriouslyC on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:21AM (#20497705)
How is an inline function different from a demarcated and commented subsection? It seems to me that the semantic and enforced correctness benefits of functions would make using them in this way a no brainer.
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Re:In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (2013) by Gibbon1 on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:58PM (#20500494)
This exactly when you break up a logically flat function into subfunctions, the names of those functions are simply replacing comments.
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Re:In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (2013) by barking on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:07AM (#20498061)
Sounds like it alright but I've never used one as they aren't available in the language I mostly use.
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