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What are you asking me to agree about? I would never get caught dead working on a 3000 line file, and honestly, that seems like a terrible way to have to add new features.



Some perspective:

    $ wc -l expr.c decl.c
    26638 expr.c
    34860 decl.c


I'm assuming those are from GCC?


No, the Delphi compiler.


Ah, this morning someone told me that if I wanted to get serious about my constant folding I should be aware the GCC impl was XXXX LOC (in the same neighborhood as what you posted) so I assumed :)


Really? Downvoted this much for simply implying that I don't appreciate 3000 line files? I didn't imply that it was bad or wrong, just that I wouldn't prefer to work with that type of style. And I hardly think that a couple of hyper counter examples takes away from my own opinion in coding style.


I apologize for editing my comment - after reading yours - to try to convey my message better. And failing to do that, and making yours kinda senseless. Will avoid that in the future.


Hehe. No problem, I was just generally blown away. Loading the full thread back up makes it more obvious now. Oh well, I get edit happy too!




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