Sander Striker wrote: > >>> 1) Can we decide on a standard style when it comes to using > >>> ++ or --? > >>> > >>> Example: > >>> > >>> lines++; > >>> > >>> vs. > >>> > >>> ++lines; > >> > >> I prefer the latter. The first thing your eye sees is the increment, then > >> the variable. The *operation* is first, which is the most important. > > > > I'm very bad in styling, but I absolutely agree. > > Consider: > > lines += 1; > > Which is the same as: > > lines++; > > Personally I am slowed down when I see this: > > ++lines; > > Because I am used to seeing the op _after_ the variable.
"lines++" is NOT the replacement of "lines += 1", but of "(lines+=1)-1" Only "++lines" is the replacement of "lines += 1". For example, if you have to increment "lines" and after that insert 2 times of it into result, and you MUST do it in one instruction, then "result = 2 * (lines += 1)" can't be replaced by "result = 2 * lines++" but only by "result = 2 * ++lines". It's not styling; It's a totally different thing. What you are USED to see, is your own taste, but in this case, even the meaning is different. But again, the whole issue is minor... -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel
