On 9/13/06, Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The ideal thing would have been to take this big file and break it > into smaller bits - cfcs or includes or custom tags, however that > wasnt an option apparently.
Yeah, I like the small bits part, and personally, I roll without comments 'cause my code is self-explanatory. Just kidding but I think the idea is sound. Especially with the hint field of functions, which if you use right, you can generate docs off of, I've heard. :-) That was one of the parts of the PP book I liked, the bit about not wasting time commenting stuff that "shouldn't need it", so to speak. But generally I try to write my code so I'll know what's going on by looking at the code, so I avoid things like naming "a b c" vars, 'cept for very obvious cases. As for the line count, that's really an interesting number. I'd count hand coded HTML as "real code", but wouldn't count a DW template's code everywhere it occurred, nor generated files. So a simple regex is going to be tough to write. It's possible, I'm sure, but it would probably be as long as my tragic EOL mishap line of code, and woe is the non-regex-uber-guru working on that, neh? Simple, no. Quite a problem. Plus, for a bonus to cf-talk, I'll recount a story my dad told me about a programmer he hired. Keeping in mind that he himself programmed. My dad would walk around the company, you know, seeing what people were up to, what they're working on, etc.. One person would be watching the line, another working levers, others sweating over a forge or moving huge pallets of stuff hither and yon... And then there was the programmer, staring off into space. It pissed him off that he never knew if he was working or not. :-) LOL I can never do my dad's stories justice, he's got a real flare for 'em, that I find difficult to capture. Practice, I guess. :-) Might take a certain type to find that funny, but I think we've got that type here. Anyways the point is it's hard to measure anything besides how many lines of code you have. 5 is 5. Wow, didn't know that. Doesn't really mean squat, besides what it means. Sheesh. I make a ton of sense when I try, don't I? [= -Denny ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253090 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
