On 03/03/11 20:50, Tony Gravagno wrote: > Some people apparently have brains that toggle IF NOT ELSE faster > than others. But apparently this construct is of concern to some > people, whether as a matter of elegance or a matter of coding > effectiveness. Recognizing this, the more I can eliminate those > lines where I or someone else needs to "brain stutter" out of the > flow, the better I think the code is. > Problem is, what causes some people to stutter is what other people find easy. Two cases in point ...
A lot of my code does "if (test) else", which is a very "pick" construct. In fact, a lot of code *had* to be written that way because a lot of conditional statements (READ etc) didn't have a THEN back then. And when I was learning C. I taught my instructor a trick or two - an exercise was to count how many 3's in a pack of cards. So I did count += (value == 3); When I read my code out for the instructor to write on the board, he just couldn't hear it right until I spelt it out letter by letter. Again, it's stuff I'd expect a Pickie to do without having to think! But the instructor just couldn't get it until he'd written it on the board and took a good hard look. Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
