From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T04:06:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26061] Re: call_myself

Hello --

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:

> Michael Neumann wrote:
>
>
> >>Sometimes, this is not obvious, because there might me a lot of other code.
> >>
> >>def some_method arg
> >>   # many LOC
> >>   # some_method mod_arg
> >>end
> >>
> >>Is there something that makes it clear that the method calls itself?
> >
> > But do we really need this? I've never had problems with unwanted
> > recursions.
>
>
> me neither. It's not about unwanted recursions: it's about making it
> clearer what happens in the code, to make it more accessible, and easier
> to understand.
>
> If in a method def, after *many* LOC, there is a call to the method
> itself, it is not obvious that it's a call to itself.

I see what you're getting at, but I think that if there are so many
lines of code in a method that you can't remember the method's name,
it's probably time for some refactoring :-)


David

-- 
David Alan Black
home: dblack@candle.superlink.net
work: blackdav@shu.edu
Web:  http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav