Re: consistent way to handle structs
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:31:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: consistent way to handle structs | ||
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
> Andi Gutmans wrote:
>
> >... it'll encourage passing parameters in hashes which is something we
> >really wouldn't want.
>
>
> it is already common practice in userland so you are fighting
>
> a war that is already lost IMHO
>
> as soon as you have, say, more then five parameters things get
> confusing, especialy if people have different habbits regarding
> paramter ordering, see mktime
That's part of the problem. A good programming practice is to not have
so many parameters to a function, if you do then you possibly have a
problem. Better rewrite the function or split it in two or something
similar.
-Andrei
"Claiming Java is easier than C++ is like
saying that K2 is shorter than Everest."
-- Larry O'Brien (editor, Software Development)