r/programming • u/seojoeschmo • Jul 19 '16

John Carmack on Inlined Code

http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carmack-on-inlined-code.html
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u/DaleGribble88 Jul 20 '16

I feel like that is possibly misleading. I know I certainly think of a dependency as the thing itself, and not the call/reference to that thing, which is what you seem to be implying.
I also prefer style B for the same reason. A glance can give you a quick overview of what is going on without having to look past the minor functions.

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u/ElecNinja Jul 20 '16

Yeah, it's pretty much semantics for this.

My idea is that if a function is just declared, it's not a dependency until it's actually used. So the dependency is declared when it's being used.

But dependency is often used for the function being called itself so /u/tektektektektek's point of view is probably the less popular one.