Re: good design & method calls

2005-03-29 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron_Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:09:37 -0500, Charles Hartman ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I know the answer to this is going to be "It depends . . .", but I want >>to get my mind right. In Fowler's *Refactoring* I read: "Older >>lang

Re: good design & method calls

2005-03-29 Thread Ron_Adam
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:09:37 -0500, Charles Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know the answer to this is going to be "It depends . . .", but I want >to get my mind right. In Fowler's *Refactoring* I read: "Older >languages carried an overhead in subroutine calls, which deterred >people from

Re: good design & method calls

2005-03-29 Thread Charles Hartman
On Mar 29, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Peter Hansen wrote: Sorry for the rant... I didn't intend it to head that way when I started out, but I seem to be on a bit of an anti-optimization bent today. :-) No, that's very helpful; thanks. Charles Hartman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: good design & method calls

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Hansen
Charles Hartman wrote: I know the answer to this is going to be "It depends . . .", but I want to get my mind right. In Fowler's *Refactoring* I read: "Older languages carried an overhead in subroutine calls, which deterred people from small methods" (followed by the basic "Extract Method" advic

good design & method calls

2005-03-29 Thread Charles Hartman
I know the answer to this is going to be "It depends . . .", but I want to get my mind right. In Fowler's *Refactoring* I read: "Older languages carried an overhead in subroutine calls, which deterred people from small methods" (followed by the basic "Extract Method" advice). In Skip Montanaro'