Getting double semi as sequencer harvested.

Jason Johnson jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 16:14:49 UTC 2007


On 9/3/07, Blake <blake at kingdomrpg.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:14:26 -0700, Philippe Marschall
> <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Claims were made that pipes could reduce code size by a factor of 10 while
> increasing clarity. If true, it's certainly worthy. Even by 2 would be
> hard to argue with. One thing about traits is that you can see how the
> code is cleaner (and even then, there's still reistance).

There have been many false and downright nonsensical claims made in
this thread.  A factor of 10 would be one of those.  A factor of 2 is
pretty unlikely.  In every place you find lots of parens then it will
be turning each pair into one character.  So that sounds more like
maybe a 2% reduction if there are lots of parens.  If that was all
there was to it.  But it isn't.  With this he wants to remove all
kinds of methods like:  #add:after: so those turn into multiple
statements probably more then doubling the size.  So the code size
will actually get larger on the whole with this change.  Granted I
haven't ran any tests to verify this, but proof would seem out of
place in this thread. :)



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