On 2014-02-18, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Rick Johnson ><rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Are you telling me you're willing to search through a single >> file containing 3,734 lines of code (yes, Tkinter) looking >> for a method named "destroy" of a class named "OptionMenu" > > Yeah, actually I am.
Yup. And there are new-fangled tools like grep and vi/emacs that even make it easy! > At my last job, I had a single C++ file of roughly 5K lines, and it > wasn't at all unmanageable. Probably wouldn't have been a problem to > have another order of magnitude on that. What sort of wimpy text > editor are you using that you can't find what you're looking for in a > single large file? Less steps to get to the file, more searching > within the file. Much easier. Definitely. I've worked on a number C projects where the source code was pointlessly split up into a whole slew of files. AFAICT, it wasn't done to provide separate namespaces or for information hiding or code reuse. It was just done to piss me off when I'm trying to find something... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Maybe I should have at asked for my Neutron Bomb gmail.com in PAISLEY -- -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list