Definitely the second one is better. It's more readable.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Richard O'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 23/06/2011, at 5:44 AM, Icarus Alive wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
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> Of these 2 styles, which one is preferred, and why ?<br>
> To me, the readability of 2nd style is better, tough it consumes 1 stack frame extra.<br>
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</div>Why do you say style 2 consumes one stack frame extra?<br>
It's called via a tail call, so that when mainLoop/0<br>
(whyDoYouWantToWriteUglyUnreadableNamesLikeThis?<br>
DidTheUnderscoreKeyBreakOffYourKeyboardOrWhat?)<br>
is running there isn't any frame for loopInit/0.<br>
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