Re: [Chicken-users] Using Fortmat

[felix winkelmann]

On Dec 6, 2007 10:00 PM, William Ramsay <address@hidden> wrote:
> Actually, this brings us another question.   Is it more efficient
> to do something like what you have below than to add an egg?   By
> efficient, I mean both in speed and program size?   I have it my
> head that I am better off keeping to the routines in the language
> rather than adding an egg.  The code below does the one thing I
> need.  Obviously I use eggs where the task is larger or impossible
> without.
>

It's a matter of taste, but personally I prefer to minimize dependencies.
So, if the simple, hand-rolled solution does the job, I'd prefer it over
the more general, but external solution.


cheers,
felix