From: Richard Dawe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: several questions (symify, dynamic labels, cpu clock) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:52:48 +0000 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3E2DC130.B5FE8528@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> References: <3E2D7CEE DOT A3C6D7FC AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.136.3.168 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk 1043186837 13590 62.136.3.168 (21 Jan 2003 22:07:17 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jan 2003 22:07:17 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.23 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. Lars Hansen wrote: [snip] > > Why not split the "first time called" code out into a separate function > > and then call that from multiple places? [snip] > I want to avoid any "if"s. [snip] Why? It seems like you are walking down the passageway of Hard To Maintain Code towards the portal of Really Frustrating To Debug Code. Regards, -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]