for / while else doesn't make sense

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Wed Jun 8 01:27:27 EDT 2016


Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com>:

> On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 10:07:05 AM UTC+12, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro:
>
>>> While elsewhere, you were criticizing my code for already being so
>>> terribly large...
>> 
>> Code can be large, only no function should be longer than ~70 lines
>> or wider than 79 columns. If your function grows above that limit,
>> you should refactor it and break it into multiple subroutines.
>
> It already had lots of subfunctions, in case you hadn’t noticed...

I didn't take a look at your code. Someone mentioned you had a 500-line
function.


Marko



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