From:	john durnall <jdurnall AT freenet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: question
Date:	Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:38:32 +0000
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be careful though, if a function is too small, then it will take longer to
call the function than to process it :-)


Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, pjotr wrote:
>
> > When writing code, is there like a maximum size of lines per function
> > you should take into account? I just wrote a 200+ lines function and I
> > was just wondering if maybe it's too large for just one function.
>
> If the function has a single well-defined purpose, then IMHO it's okay to
> go beyond 200 lines, even if comments are not counted.  Usually, though,
> only highly complicated problems require such long functions.  In most
> cases, you should be able to solve any single problem in less than that,
> and if not, to break the problem into several smaller sub-problems.
>
> DJGPP makes it difficult to debug a function if it has more than 64K
> lines.  Anything less than that should work.  It is up to you to decide
> where do you draw the line.

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