Re: Libraries and effiency
Re: Libraries and effiency
- Subject: Re: Libraries and effiency
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:29:02 -0700
On 2010-08-11, at 05:39:02, Shane Stanley wrote:
> On 11/8/10 10:31 PM, "Tommy Bollman" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The thing with libraries is that they may spare you for reinventing the wheel
>> each time, as there are much of the same things going on in all the scripts,
>> like finding the parent folder, or returning a file name, or checking if a
>> date is lesser than or greater than an other, and so on.
>
> So I make a dozen handlers for things like finding the parent folder. And
> when I want them, of course I can't remember their names, and then I can't
> remember whether they provide the trailing colon or not, so I open them and
> check the code, at which point I'm thinking copy and paste from my
> collection of snippets isn't such a bad scheme at all...
Because there's never been much in the way of handler listing facilities for the last 20 years?
Philip Aker
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