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Re:Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuo... by Ygg2 on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:58AM (#27956492)
Interesting. Why function calls over events? And is it always applicable?
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Re:Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuo... by adwn on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:40AM (#27957125)
I suspect because it makes both data and control flow more explicit and traceable.

> And is it always applicable?

No heuristic is always applicable.

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Re:Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuo... by naavis on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:46AM (#27958263)
> No heuristic is always applicable.

Exactly. That's why it is called a heuristic and not a rule. :)

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Re:Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuo... by IshKebab on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:13AM (#27957318)
Not always applicable but it makes debugging far easier, reduces the chance of events being lost and makes it easier and safer to understand and modify code.
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