I have the same feeling about locals and now-considered-evil stack shufflers. All of these have some value as language features, especially to make development easier, but it seems like well-factored, well-written code doesn't use them all that much.
Dan On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Slava Pestov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I like fry very much, but I've noticed that most of my usages of 'fry' > are pretty trivial, stuff like > > '[ , foo ] > '[ , , foo ] > > Or sometimes the slightly more elaborate > > '[ swap , foo ] > '[ drop , foo ] > > I've been trying to reconcile these two facts, and I think I've figured it > out. > > In theory, fry is sort of redundant, because most usages do not really > take advantage of its full power. > > However, often when I'm writing some code, the first iteration is more > complex than it needs to be, and in these cases, I will end up with > more complex fry forms, stuff like > > '[ [ , blah ] bi@ ] 2each > > It seems that a lot of the time, the natural progression of the code > simplifies it down to something with a trivial use of fry; I'll change > a stack effect here, tweak a tuple there, and suddenly my complex > logic evaporates and the complex fry usage along with it. > > But having fry there makes it easy to get the first iteration going, > and to gradually refactor it later, rather than spending time up-front > writing complex stack shuffling that I know I won't need anyway. So > very often fry acts as a 'programming lubricant' without actually > impacting the final code. This is pretty interesting, I think. > > Just wanted to share this thought... > > Slava > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
