> Just because you do it frequently doesn’t necessarily make it good. Fair point, but in my ~20 years of experience, I've learned what does and doesn't make fo

> Just because you do it frequently doesn’t necessarily make it good. Fair point, but in my ~20 years of experience, I've learned what does and doesn't make for more work down the road. To wit: if something is always bad, I don't keep doing it. But I didn't just say I do it frequently, I said that I do it frequently for big-ish functions when it's only toggling a line or so. That context is important: I am not arguing that this is always a good thing. I'm saying that there's a time & place for it, and with a language like C++, it's a zero-cost abstraction. > ...I don’t agree with the example as provided. Yeah, neither do I. As I pointed out elsewhere, its a contrived example which can be more simply factored out into two function calls. So unless it's being used tens to hundreds of times, nothing is gained there.