OpenEuphoria

Re: Missing in misc.e

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at y?h?o.com> Jul 21, 2007
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Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > Pete Lomax wrote:
> > > 
> > > here's a single min() function that does the three things it ought to.
> <SNIP>
> > I don't know if you ever heard about the Shadoks cartoon. One of their 
> > great thoughts was "Why make it simple since we can make it more 
> > complicated?".
> No, I never heard of that. Frankly, I am surprised that you like it since I
> thought you might have a problem with the relatively large number of tests
> needed
> to make the simple interface work  I look forward to seeing how it fares
> in this weekends bench tests.
> 
> Regards,
> Pete

Heh, I thought that it was a bit complicated too. I'm all for consolidating, but
sometimes too much is too much.

--
"Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."
--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
--M. Haertel
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
j.