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Re: terminate a PHP script [message #172600 is a reply to message #172590]

Tue, 22 February 2011 03:16

The Natural Philosoph
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sheldonlg wrote:
> On 2/21/2011 8:15 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Peter H. Coffin wrote:
>>> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:50:39 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:
>>>> Because of the incredible convolution and depth of nested
>>>> if/then/else you can get to. If I have (as it might be) a function
>>>> that's scanning a string looking for and obtaining options and their
>>>> values for some command previously scanned off the string, and I
>>>> detect an error, I want to set an error code and exit right there. I
>>>> don't want any subsequent maintainer to have to intuit that, in fact,
>>>> from this point on nested 15-deep in else clauses, no more code is
>>>> executed for that path through the function.
>>>>
>>>> That way I rarely get more than 3-deep in if/then/else. To me, it's
>>>> all about readbility.
>>>
>>> *grin* for me, it's all about comprehesibility. If you don't like how
>>> deep you're nesting, maybe you need to break something out into a
>>> function instead....
>>>
>> Yes, but how much stack do you have? Can you afford the overhead of a
>> call/return? How much does splitting a whole block of code to four pages
>> away make the comprehensibility problem worse, not better?
>
> If you have fifteen pages of code within a success bracket, then you are
> at least 8-10 times too big in the routine. It should be broken into
> smaller segments.

'Should' and 'can' are often not the same thing.
And a lot depends on the size of your page: remember when 80x25 was all
you had?

four pages is ONLY 100 lines.

Or if you were lucky in your fan fold, 320 lines or so. IIRC, Which I
probably don't.

I know that that when I have a piece of code that is
> getting lengthy, I either put some of it in functions, or I make a more
> liberal use of include files and put blocks of code in include files. It
> makes it MUCH more readable and maintainable that way.
>

I think that people today have habits derived from a lot of tools and
large screens that didn't exist when I learnt to program.

> -
> Shelly

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		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 00:28
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		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:00
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		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 23 February 2011 08:18
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Tim Streater on Tue, 22 February 2011 17:18
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		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:15
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