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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Circular module dependencies
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:30:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040908103050.5dc42393.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409070524360.32038@shell2.speakeasy.net>

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 05:36:18 -0700 (PDT)
brogoff <brogoff@speakeasy.net> wrote:

> In general, I agree that this can be a design error, but refactorings that
> are reasonable for toy code posted during an internet email discussion may not
> make sense when we're talking about files that are tens of thousands of lines
> long even in very high level languages. Scale changes everything.

Well my particular problem was definitely not "toy code posted 
during an internet email discussion" but a serious piece of
that has already grown to about 3000 lines. Yes its still 
small but in this case refactoring was definitely the best
solution.

Erik
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-08  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-07  9:17 Tony Edgin
2004-09-07  2:28 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-07 17:10   ` Christopher Dutchyn
2004-09-07  4:39 ` brogoff
2004-09-07  6:12   ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-09-07 12:36     ` brogoff
2004-09-07 13:39       ` Christopher A. Watford
2004-09-08  0:30       ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2004-09-07  6:14 ` Nicolas Cannasse

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