Hidden argument kind antipattern

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:18:39 +0300, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:

> My vote is weakly in favor of lazy parameters, since a maintenance  
> programmer would probably look at what such a function does and not be  
> surprised for very long.

Not contradicting you, but I'd like to clarify my point: given a large  
function with unknown code, it is my opinion that, with a well-designed  
programming language / library, a maintainer will not have to inspect the  
signature of each function referenced from the code to understand the  
basic _data flow_ and _execution order_ within the function.

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net