My own preference is a balance between being readable and efficient.
At first, i care above anything to make my code readable.
And I think that, being properly formatted, declaring temps in blocks
scope not makes code less readable.
Also, i think that keeping variables close to desired scope, will
instead could help improving code readability.
But i must say, we should learn & teach developers to write code short
& consise, or at least attempt to (following a well known smalltalk
practice - 1/2 lines per method).
Then we wouldn't need to choose, what way of declaring temps is better ;)
2010/1/4 St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>:
--> Hi guys
>
> in squeak a week ago nicolas pushed a cool (from my taste) changes that refactored the complete
> system so that |temp| declaration would be at the scope where they are used.
> This is not clear that this is an optimisation but I like the fact that temp
> are defined at the right place.
> Now it may lead to code that is a bit less readable in the sense that your temps
> are not systematically listed at the beginning of the method but occasionally in the closures
> that use them.
> From my hackish lisping state of mind I like it now what do you prefer?
>
> Stef
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
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