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From: fox@allegra.att.com (David Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Request for C++ coding "guidelines"
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Date: 19 Feb 90 13:43:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP's message of 18 Feb 90 19:12:33 GMT

In article <1644@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

       These decisions should be up to programmers, not to guideline writers.

   Hey, if you *know* what you are doing, a guideline is not a rule! :-).

I guess what I am objecting to is compilers that arbitrarily
decide that a function is "too big" and outline it for that 
reason only.

David Fox
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