Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop
Date	2015-10-11 14:43 +1300
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regis wrote:
> On 10/11/15 02:56, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>> But it's not always sensible to write code as lots of little
>> functions.
>> A major problem is "Russian doll" programming, where one user-defined
>> function just calls another and another, doing trivial processing.
>> Since the functions are user-defined, it's not clear what they
>> actually do, and the reader is hopping about in the source, not
>> getting any real answers.
>>
>
> Only if they are named with no methodology
> or if they have no defined single goal,
> which usually comes together.
>
> The role of a function is precisely to isolate a single goal,
> hide how this goal is achieved, and reveal the goal by its name.
>
> Even for the not so great name sqrt(), you don't hop in its source
> to look how it is implemented. It could be written 100 nested
> russian dolls, that it would not matter, because we don't even
> care to open the first doll~: we know it computes the square root
> by its name and that's all we need to know to read the next line.

Indeed.  The alternative is the pages long functions those of us who 
have to deal with legacy code have to suffer.

I would also add that small, well named functions are often good 
candidates for collecting together in libraries for later reuse.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 10:28 -0700
  Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Stephen Fisher <sfisher@panix.com> - 2015-10-10 18:53 +0000
    Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-10 22:23 +0200
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-10 23:13 +0200
    Re: Operating Systems in Teaching Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-10 22:04 +0100
      Re: Operating Systems in Teaching Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-10 14:12 -0700
        Re: Operating Systems in Teaching Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-10 22:30 +0100
      Re: Operating Systems in Teaching Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-10-10 18:25 -0400
      Re: Operating Systems in Teaching Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-11 15:02 +0100
        Re: Operating Systems in Teaching Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-11 16:39 +0100
        Re: Operating Systems in Teaching Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-10-11 17:50 +0200
        Re: Operating Systems in Teaching "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-11 11:29 -0500
          Re: Operating Systems in Teaching "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-11 11:48 -0500
          Re: Operating Systems in Teaching Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-11 18:18 +0100
            Re: Operating Systems in Teaching "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-11 12:46 -0500
              Re: Operating Systems in Teaching Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-10-11 13:57 -0400
  Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-11 10:21 +1300
    Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-10 14:55 -0700
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 00:35 +0200
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-11 00:01 +0100
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-10 16:21 -0700
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-11 01:24 +0100
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-10 17:56 -0700
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 03:17 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a   for loop Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-11 14:43 +1300
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-11 00:19 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-11 11:02 +0100
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-11 03:47 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-11 16:05 +0100
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 17:38 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 18:49 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-11 12:37 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 21:56 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-11 13:34 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-12 10:11 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-11 12:59 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 19:15 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 12:48 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-11 03:59 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 13:30 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 14:19 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 14:48 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-11 12:20 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 13:49 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 13:55 +0200
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 02:40 +0200
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-11 14:40 +1300
  Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-10 22:29 +0100
    Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 00:22 +0200
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 00:57 +0200
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-11 00:46 +0100
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 02:23 +0200
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-11 01:28 +0100
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 04:21 +0200
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 04:32 +0200
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-11 11:06 +0100
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-11 02:55 +0200
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-15 10:36 -0700
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-15 14:37 -0700
    Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-11 10:15 +0000
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-12 10:37 +0200
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-12 11:08 +0200
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-14 16:27 +0200
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tonton Th <tTh@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-10-14 14:28 +0000
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-14 16:36 +0200
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-14 16:40 +0200
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-14 16:49 +0200
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-15 14:09 -0700
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-16 12:49 +0200
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-19 14:28 -0700
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-20 02:03 +0200
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a   for loop Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-20 13:13 +1300
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-19 20:07 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-20 14:30 +0200
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-20 15:08 +0200
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-24 12:18 -0700
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-20 03:03 +0200
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-24 12:21 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-25 15:16 +0100
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-27 22:29 -0700
  Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-11 10:26 +0000
    Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-11 14:09 -0700
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-14 11:36 +0000
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-14 10:23 -0700
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-20 16:06 +0000
    Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-12 00:19 +0200
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-11 17:53 -0700
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-12 04:15 +0200
  Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 08:44 -0700
    Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-14 07:27 +0200
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-14 08:53 +0200
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-14 11:13 +0100
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-14 12:35 +0200
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-14 13:08 +0100
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-14 18:11 +0200
    Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-16 04:58 -0700
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-16 15:07 +0200
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-16 23:50 +0200
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-17 00:06 +0200
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-16 15:30 -0700
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-19 13:45 -0700
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-20 02:40 +0200
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-24 12:47 -0700
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-25 15:36 +0100
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-27 22:37 -0700
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-25 15:52 +0100
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-25 19:10 +0100
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-25 19:17 +0100
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-27 23:05 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-28 03:59 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-29 14:04 +0100
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-29 01:07 +0100
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-30 08:31 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-27 22:48 -0700
          Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-10-20 08:55 +0000
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop regis <regis.barbanchon@free.fr> - 2015-10-20 13:52 +0200
            Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-24 14:04 -0700
              Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-10-25 06:44 +0000
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-25 09:09 +0000
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-10-25 10:12 +0000
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-10-25 03:26 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-25 06:38 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-25 15:23 +0000
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-25 10:54 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-25 12:21 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-25 14:16 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-25 14:52 -0700
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-26 00:58 +0000
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-26 11:50 +0000
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-11-10 15:17 +0000
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-11-10 19:27 -0600
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-11-11 07:39 +0000
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-11-11 08:22 -0600
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-11 00:37 -0600
                Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-28 08:52 -0700
  Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-10-18 12:31 -0700
    Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-10-18 15:28 -0700
      Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-19 11:40 +1300
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-10-18 20:41 -0700
        Re: Program to count words, issues with an if condition within a for loop asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-10-18 20:44 -0700

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