On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> The discussion has a number of good points in favor of using 'a', but I > missed convincing arguments in favor of not using 'a'. Are there any? I > don't consider "I don't get what 'a' is good for" a convincing argument. > It increases the overhead of extracting part of a large function into a helper function, because typically some local variables become parameters of the helper function, so they have to be renamed. Admittedly, C++ already inhibits this refactoring by (usually) requiring helper method declarations to be repeated in the class declaration ... which is one of the things I most dislike about C++. But every increase in overhead reduces the likelihood that the refactoring will be done when it should. Rob -- lbir ye,ea yer.tnietoehr rdn rdsme,anea lurpr edna e hnysnenh hhe uresyf toD selthor stor edna siewaoeodm or v sstvr esBa kbvted,t rdsme,aoreseoouoto o l euetiuruewFa kbn e hnystoivateweh uresyf tulsa rehr rdm or rnea lurpr .a war hsrer holsa rodvted,t nenh hneireseoouot.tniesiewaoeivatewt sstvr esn _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform