On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:46:57PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > This stiffles change, because to introduce a new > parameter requires changes all over the place. > Therefore, most functional programming languages are > introducing object orientation into their type systems.
If you have functions requiring a lot of parameters or if you are not sure whether you need to change the signature soon you simply put all (or at least the 'instable' args) in a structure and pass down a (possibly const) reference to such a structure. If you need another int to be passed, add it to the struct and recompile. No need to edit everything. Since usually most of the parameters are read-only this might even speed up things because you pass only one argument instead of several on the stack. Additionally, one can usually just forward-declare this parameter struct in headers, which is especially nice if you have things like enums or strings that usually can't be forward-declared. Andre' -- André Pönitz .............................................. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
