Re: [External] : Re: Shrinking the C core

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Drew Adams wrote:

> "The functions" can't be "easier to see" than the single
> function

Many functions that each do little are easier to see than few
functions that each do a lot, because with many functions that
each do little, the function names are often enough to
understand what they do and how they work - and they require
none or very little documentation.

But with few functions that each do a lot, one has to check
the documentation for each function, and the documentation
will be huge, because few functions that each do a lot either
have to have an almost endless list of arguments or rely on an
equally long list of possible keywords to control
their behavior.

For example, (+ ...), (- ...) etc are preferable to
(arithmetic :operation 'addition ...),
(arithmetic :operation 'subtraction ...) etc.

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