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Re: Todays WTF

On 8/10/07, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I agree with your definition of how sub procs helped your situation and that
is the same approach that I took. That still doesn't address your original
comment of putting sub routines with the likes of GOTO's, but if your
re-definition below serves as a sort of retract to say sub routines can
SOMETIMES be beneficial then I will just drop my challenge.

Aaron,

complexity = a lot of details. details are details, no matter the
origin. When you are reading code that contains a GOTO, the unimplied
return point of the GOTO is one more detail you have to keep track of.
When the subrtn uses a global variable that is assigned to in one
routine and then used as input 3 routines down the call stack, that is
another detail. The end result, is a pile of details that
unnecessarily bog down your work.

-Steve

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