[Python-Dev] Split unicodeobject.c into subfiles (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Oct 25 23:39:19 CEST 2012

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:13:53 -0700 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

I'm all for good software engineering practice. But can you cite objective reasons why large source files are provably bad? Not "tangled monolithic messes", not poorly-factored code. I agree that those are bad--but so far nobody has proposed that either of those is true about unicodeobject.c (unless you are implicitly doing so above)

Well, "tangled monolithic mess" is quite true about unicodeobject.c, IMO. Seriously, I agree with Victor: navigating around unicodeobject.c is a PITA. Perhaps it isn't if you are using emacs, or you have 35 fingers, or just a lot of spare time, but in my experience it's painful.

Regards

Antoine.

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