[Gambas-user] C like #include for Gambas

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Sorry, maybe I need to re-read!

Jussi



On 9 June 2012 18:02, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...> wrote:

> Bruce, please re-read. I'm against idea of #include being new keyword.
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> On 9 June 2012 17:00, Bruce <bbruen at ...2308...> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 13:51 +0100, jm wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 02:45 +0300, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
>> > > Maybe I'm just too tired, but I don't understand the point.
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>> Jussi, maybe I'm just too old as well as tired, but I can't grasp the
>> point of taking an object oriented language and trying to jam an old
>> (albeit well tested) non-OO concept into it.
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>> Joe, I am having some degree of trouble really understanding your value
>> proposition. Especially the last post (which I have snipped in entirety,
>> sorry). All I can grasp from reading it several times is that you feel
>> that #include has some productivity value in providing what we call
>> inheritance and polymorphism.
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>> I am not trying to put you down but I really can't grasp the ideas of
>> "thousands" of parameters and "hundreds" of initialisations.
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>> { We, here at paddys-hill have tens of clients (well a few tens anyway )
>> that use a dozen or so applications, the code base encompasses around
>> two hundred or so classes and modules organized into around thirty
>> components and libraries.  The total code size is less than 25,000 lines
>> and I would guess that probably 60% or more of that is comments. At a
>> guess, the "largest" method calls would be 7 parameters, and they are
>> just convenience calls to a class constructor.  By far the "largest"
>> chunk of code is a library that downloads the text of around 40 web
>> pages a day (about 40,000 text lines), parses them, normalises them and
>> uploads them to the central database. I just checked and it's 6345 lines
>> of code, so about 2400 working lines, which are mainly involved in text
>> parsing (things like discerning "Mac Donald" and "MacDonald" or "Miss
>> Jane O'Donnel" and "Ms Jan ODonnell" are the same names). The primary
>> application that uses this library runs once a day and adds about 1200
>> rows to a central postgresql database and can update anywhere between 2
>> and 10,000 other rows.  It takes "about" 10 minutes.  The central
>> database has just over 3.2 million rows, the clients each have a
>> sub-mirrored database of who-knows-what size.}
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>> Anyway, I hope you can see from the above {} that those numbers you are
>> using are fairly un-emotive to the reader.
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>> regards
>> Bruce
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