On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:13:53 -0700 Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > > I'm all for good software engineering practice. But can you cite > objective reasons why large source files are provably bad? Not "tangled > monolithic messes", not poorly-factored code. I agree that those are > bad--but so far nobody has proposed that either of those is true about > unicodeobject.c (unless you are implicitly doing so above)
Well, "tangled monolithic mess" is quite true about unicodeobject.c, IMO. Seriously, I agree with Victor: navigating around unicodeobject.c is a PITA. Perhaps it isn't if you are using emacs, or you have 35 fingers, or just a lot of spare time, but in my experience it's painful. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
