[Python-Dev] Split unicodeobject.c into subfiles?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:46:57 +0200
martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
> 
> Zitat von Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I only see one argument against such refactoring: it will be harder to
> > backport/forwardport bugfixes.
> 
> I'm opposed for a different reason: I think it will be *harder* to maintain.
> The amount of code will not be reduced, but now you also need to guess what
> file some piece of functionality may be in. Instead of having my text editor
> (Emacs) search in one file, it will have to search across multiple files -
> but not across all open buffers, but only some of them (since I will have
> many other source files open as well).
> 
> I really fail to see what problem people have with large source files.
> What is it that you want to do that can be done easier if it's multiple
> files?

Navigate, basically. That is, switch between different pieces of code,
without having to type in some text to search for.

Regards

Antoine.


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