[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Dave Froble]

On 4/14/2022 2:08 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-04-14, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 4/14/2022 1:17 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
>>> On 14/04/2022 12:23 pm, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> On 4/13/2022 10:10 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> On 4/13/2022 8:43 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you better define nested functions?  Then I can decide if
>>>>>> Basic allows such.
>>>>>
>>>>> Functions declared inside functions (and therefore only available inside the
>>>>> declaring function).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ok, what is so neat about that?
>>>>
>>>> I cannot see the point, when if one wants to use a second function inside a
>>>> first function, another external function should be
>>>> callable. Haven't tried it recently.  Maybe I should.  Perhaps I
>>>> should know what I'm talking about at least once a year.
>>>>
>>>> But I can see no reason to have a function defined inside another
>>>> function.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Encapsulation/Isolation
>>
>> Isolation from what?  You're writing the code, you decide what to write, I still
>> don't see the point.
>>
>
> When you write an application that's say 20,000 lines long, do you
> write one great big monolithic function that's 20,000 lines long and
> with sections of common code copy and pasted around in the application,
> or do you split up the application into logical chunks and also include
> common functions with a defined interface that can be called from
> multiple points in your application ?

Simon, I'm the world's greatest believer in modularity.

> If it's the latter, you are already performing encapsulation and
> isolation of functionality and nested procedures are just the
> next step in that process.
>
> Some reading:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns
>
> Simon.
>


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