Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
And when the rats nest MUST be created? Why make it more painful? I'm sure if Hans Bohem could write it in a clearer fashion he would have.
Hans is in a trap with it. If he reengineered it, he very likely would break many platforms, and he does not have those platforms and has no way to test. The code is very brittle, and it would take a lot of guts to try and reorganize it.
The hbgc is a collection of code submitted by many, many people.
The same arguments could be said about actual if statements in code, yet you have no qualms not forcing people to combine their logic into boolean variables before using an if statement.
It's not the same, because versions tend to slice through whole programs in an unstructured manner, while garden variety if statements are structured and local.
