On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:33, Not Zed wrote: > Thats a very odd thing to suggest Mike. > > Why the added stack frame, for no other beneifit than to give the > compiler more symbols to play with? When I see the same ten lines of code being added to a file at a dozen or more places, I think "function". You don't consider reduced code size and the maintainability gains if changes are ever needed to that "block" of code to be benefits?