bearophile wrote:
Stanislav Blinov:
...which quickly expands to a lot of *long* import lines, with "don't
forget to add another" constantly pushing the door-bell.
That's redundancy is "making your subsystems interfaces explicit". I see that
you and other people here fail to understand this, or just value a bit of typing more
than a tidy way of coding. To interested people I suggest to read papers about this part
of the Ada design (and generally about module system design).
Bye,
bearophile
Bearophile, you frequently talk about "a tidy way of coding" in
arguments. As far as I can tell, it simply means "bearophile's way of
coding", and it's always verbose, but the 'tidy' contains an implied
value judgement that it is good.
Your use of 'tidy coding' doesn't distinguish between a coding style
which catches bugs, versus a coding style which contains needless,
redundant verbosity -- and that is inevitably what the discussion is
about. I do not think it is ever valid to use that expression.
To me, that term is always a flag that a fallacy is coming.
