On Wed, 06 May 2009 04:59:59 +0100, Gabriel Genellina
<gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
En Tue, 05 May 2009 22:35:08 -0300, Rhodri James
<rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> escribió:
On Tue, 05 May 2009 21:43:16 +0100, <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:
wolfram.hinde...:
It is easy to change all references of the function name, except for
those in the function body itself? That needs some explantation.
I can answer this. If I have a recursive function, I may want to
create a similar function, so I copy and paste it, to later modify the
copied version. Then to change its name I usually don't use a search &
rename of its name into its block of code because it's usually
useless. In non-recursive functions the name of the function is stated
only once, at the top.
I'm sorry, but while I'm mildly positive towards the proposal (and more
so towards Aaron's decorator), I don't buy this argument at all. What
is broken about your editor's global search-and-replace function that
makes it "usually useless" for making these name changes?
It happened to me sometimes. If a module defines some functions, and it
doesn't *use* them, why should I use a global search-and-replace to
rename something? Modifying the "def" line should be enough - unless the
function happens to be recursive.
So the answer to my question would be "nothing"?
It's the DRY principle in action, the same argument as when decorators
where introduced: there should be no need to repeat the function name
again and again.
Unless of course you're using it again and again, which you are.
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