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Why do many languages not support named parameters? [closed]
I was just thinking how much easier it would be to read code if, when calling a function, you could write:
doFunction(param1=something, param2=somethingElse);
I can't think of any drawbacks and it ...
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Good practice to use namespace or prefix to indicate what file function is from? [duplicate]
For example, I have the function generate_salt() in encryption.file but the person may not know where generate_salt() is from. Using a namespace like encryption::generate_salt(), or ...
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Programming by Intention, Depth-First or Breadth-First?
Say I have the following graph of dependencies between procedures/functions/methods:
o
/ \
v e
/ \ / \
r f l w
That is, function o first calls function v, and then ...
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13answers
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Is it OK to split long functions and methods into smaller ones even though they won't be called by anything else? [duplicate]
Lately I've been trying to split long methods into several short ones.
For example: I have a process_url() function which splits URLs into components and then assigns them to some objects via their ...
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Is it a good idea to provide different function signatures that do the same thing?
Here is a C++ class that gets constructed with three values.
class Foo{
//Constructor
Foo(std::string, int, char);
private:
std::string foo;
char bar;
int baz;
};
All of ...
