On 08.07.19 13:50, Markus Elfring wrote: >>> I suggest to reduce a bit of duplicate source code also at this place. >> >> Duplicate code (logic) or just characters ? > > Both. You could also complexity for the human reader. That's a point where personal perception comes in, which needs to be taken into account. > The code text size can influence this aspect in considerable ways. It *can*, but not necessarily. I'd prefer leaving this choice to the maintainer, as he's the one who finally needs to care about all the code. Discussions about such choices tend to be pointless (personal perception / taste isn't something that can be debated by argument) and risks annoying people and waste precious brain time. > I suggest occasionally again to reconsider consequences around a principle > like “Don't repeat yourself”. In general correct. But in some cases repeating a few words can make the code actually easier to read (psychologic phenomenon - human brains work very different from computers). This needs to be carefully weighted. Theorettically, we could do this conversation with much less words, using some purely logic language, similar to math formulas - but for most people this hard to do. Therefore, let's make the code easy for us humans and let the machines (eg. compiler) do the heavy lifting. >> But that doesn't mean that a particular patch can be accepted >> or not in the greater context. > > Would you like to find the corresponding change acceptance out at all? For particular change, I wouldn't really object, but I don't like it so much either. Some your other changes IMHO do make the code prettier. >> - it's not a technical > > I got an other impression. That's the point. Psychology / personal perception plays a big role here. We can't deduce it by pure logic. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@xxxxxxxxx -- +49-151-27565287
