"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message news:mailman.450.1329455016.20196.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > Seriously? && and || are _way_ more readible, because they're obviously > not > functions or variables. It's immediately obvious what the operators are > when > scanning code. That's not the case when the operators are words instead of > symbols. I'm certain that you'd have quite a few programmers up in arms if > you > tried to change && to "and" and || to "or." And having multiple operators > which do exactly the same thing is a horrible idea which reduces code > readibility. So, even adding them as alternate options is a really bad > idea > IMHO. > > I'm surprised that anyone would think that and was better than &&. >
This is why I think people are nuts when they claim that english-like VB-style syntax is more readable than C-style. (Yea, to a grandmother with zero programming experience english-like languages are more readable. For a programmer it's worse becase code != english.)
