On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Bob goolsby wrote:
> Not 'wrong headed', just a compiler compiler optimization. By putting
> the declarations before the usage, you reduced the number of complete
> passes through the source by one and made the parsing code easier.
> This is an artifact from the t
Not 'wrong headed', just a compiler compiler optimization. By putting
the declarations before the usage, you reduced the number of complete
passes through the source by one and made the parsing code easier.
This is an artifact from the time when Machine-Time was expensive and
Programmer-Time was (
