On 7-Sep-07, at 4:51 PM, William Tanksley, Jr wrote: > I understand this, but I think it's more complicated than just this. > When the need is for a 'dup' I'd rather use 'dup' than 'a--aa'; but > when the need is for a chain of stack shuffles, I'd far rather use > 'abcd--dcdabacd' than spend the time thinking of the alternative. > > (Yes, I concede that a horror like I just wrote is usually well > handled by refactoring. But as we all know, sometimes it isn't.)
If I can't find a nice way to express something with the stack, I'd rather just use locals. IMO, a shuffle like abcd-dcdabacd isn't easy to follow, whichever way you dice it. Slava ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
