"Andy Salnikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Peter Otten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > QOTW: "It's hard to make a mistake by having too many short and simple
> > functions. And much too easy to make them when you have too few ;-)"
> > - Thomas Bartkus
> >
> And of course there is a mathematical proof of that provided
> somewhere, isn't it? :)
>
> "Too many" is always opposite to "hard to make a mistake", at least
> in my mind.
I parsed the assertion as:
(It's hard to
(make a mistake
(by having
(too many
(short and simple)
functions))))
In other words, it's not that he's saying "having too many short and
simple functions" is difficult, nor that it's not a mistake; he's
saying that it's difficult to get into a situation where that is the
cause of one's mistake.
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Ben Finney
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