From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Shrinking the C core Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 12:08:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87h6ntcdt5.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87cyyje7hh.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qezdw6a.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18406"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-tangents@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:s5VzwZz9h4Kjt0FNtqZERe5MU38= Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 17 12:46:37 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qhpIR-0004aO-EB for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2023 12:46:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qhpHv-0008Ow-PL; Sun, 17 Sep 2023 06:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qhohq-0003mJ-Mn for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2023 06:08:46 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qhohp-0003rx-1j for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2023 06:08:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qhohk-0000Mt-MW for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2023 12:08:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-tangents@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 06:46:01 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:1098 Archived-At: 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. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal