Re: Better yet, use a function for each of those nested levels.

Posted Dec 28, 2014 6:34 UTC (Sun) by ldo (guest, #40946)
In reply to: Re: not sure I'd agree that breaking out of a loop just to test the same error condition by reubenhwk
Parent article: The "too small to fail" memory-allocation rule

Fine. Rewrite some suitably representative part of my code to show us an example of what you mean. There seems to be an enormous reluctance among you so-called programmers to actually do this. Perhaps because every time you try it, you get it wrong.

Re: Better yet, use a function for each of those nested levels.

Posted Dec 29, 2014 2:58 UTC (Mon) by reubenhwk (guest, #75803) [Link]

Perhaps we're on vacation and, even if we weren't, we have better things to do..

Re: Better yet, use a function for each of those nested levels.

Posted Dec 29, 2014 3:19 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (1 responses)

Interesting use of the word "us". The royal we?

Re: Better yet, use a function for each of those nested levels.

Posted Dec 29, 2014 17:30 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Probably the millions of lurkers who support him in email, using his fabulously readable coding style. I know I've encountered it everywhere! (... wait, that should be "nowhere".)

The argument from popularity is not a good one, but if something is not popular it is not terribly wise to imply that in fact it is.