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mmmm this is a problem of the engineers not the language though =\ Overuse of dynamically generated functions is possible in any high level language. The worst
by irjustin 2y ago
mmmm this is a problem of the engineers not the language though =\
Overuse of dynamically generated functions is possible in any high level language. The worst offender that I had seen was a PHP wordpress plugin that stored a custom function per row in the DB brought to life via `eval`.
Those were the days.
- chowells 2y ago> Overuse of dynamically generated functions is possible in any high level language. A large number of high-level languages resolve functions at compile time, rejecting programs containing references to functions that don't exist.
- dragonwriter 2y agoNo language in which dynamically generated functions exist does so, because if it did it would be impossible to use them. I will agree that dynamically generated functions are not overused in languages in which they cannot be expressed at all, but...