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[Python-Dev] Split unicodeobject.c into subfiles

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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