i type lots of stuff all the way out its easier to debug
and the compilers are very good at optimizing that sort of thing there is a big balance between efficiency, size, speed, clarity, etc its usually clarity that is in short supply On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Scott Anguish <sc...@cocoadoc.com> wrote: > Yes, that works as well. The reason we’ve advocated the longer form is that > it is clearer what is happening to those who are not as intimate with the > quirks like this. > > I also recall reading (but don’t quote me on this) that the longer form > generates less instructions. I can’t recall where though. > > In documentation you won’t see (( for the above reason (clearer) and > because it was likely we’d get typo reports. > > > On Jun 23, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: > > > On Jun 23, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > > >> Yes. Any expression of the form > >> > >> if(A = B) > >> > >> i.e. an assignment directly inside an if, will result in a warning that > this looks confusingly like a comparison. > > > > If you prefer the if(A = B) syntax, though, this can be worked around by > using double parentheses, i.e. > > > > if((A = B)) > > > > Charles > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/billappleton%40dreamfactory.com > > This email sent to billapple...@dreamfactory.com > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
