[erlang-questions] DRY principle and the syntax inconsistency in fun vs. vanilla functions

[Michael Richter]

On 19 May 2011 18:47, Michael Turner <michael.eugene.turner@REDACTED>wrote:

> "It would, as others have pointed out, also be much harder to jump into a
> module and _know_ what the clause does since the function's name can be
> pages away."
>


> It would only be harder ("much"??) if you *chose*, in such cases, to use
> the syntax I propose to bring over from multi-clause funs. In the case you
> bring up, it might be wiser not to. And what I propose clearly allows
> everyone to continue with the present syntax. So your argument for
> readability in this case comes down to "somebody might not use this language
> feature wisely." (*facepalm*).
>

Jumping into the party a bit late, but this caught my eye.

You do realize that sometimes people have to look at the code written by
others, right?  Whether I choose to use this new syntax or not (and for the
record I hate it), it will inevitably still impact me if others choose to
use it.

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