On 18/10/2010 13:58, Frank Church wrote: > On 18 October 2010 07:49, Florian Klaempfl <flor...@freepascal.org> wrote: [...] >>> No. >>> >> > > That is a rather emphatic no :). > Is there some performance or other related reason why it is a bad idea? I'm > not knowledgeable in this area but I'd like to know. > > Sometimes my variable declarations is filled with lots of variables for the > sake of making code involving long derived expressions comprehensible and > the clutter the understanding at the top level of the procedure. > > Can a procedure be declared inline just for the sake of introducing those > variables? > > I guess it has something to do with 'functions/procedures not to be longer than 3 editor screens' and 'if it is longer and has more responsibilities than the name implies, do split it up' kind of paradigm. c(-like) languages are very bad (don't keep you restrained) at this kind of use ;) and Gnu Pascal is a mere frontend to GCC so it may inherit c-isms ;)
Having variables declared within code block used to require to parse the source code at least 2 times as opposed to nice Pascal way of doing it ONCE only. This was a compiler performance winner in the times of ancient 286, 386 ;) (dug out from depths of my memory, may be outdated badly). L. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
