On 4/25/16, 9:38 AM, "Leon Rosenberg" <[email protected]> wrote:
>The other thing that made me wonder is that most people on the list (or
>all
>except me) actually considered if-else-if-else more readable. It not only
>creates a more complex structure (visually and syntactically (more
>letters)). But also the semantics of an *else* are different as of an
>*if*.
>This is like North Carolina ;-)
>if (man){ do_man_thing; } else { do_woman_thing(); } doesn't work anymore,
>even it worked 20 years ago. Talking about maintaining :-)
>
>regards
>Leon
Yes, we do, because, well, it is more informative. :-)
if (a) Š
else if (b) Š
else if (c) Š
Says you have three mutually exclusive options, and implies that a is more
likely / more important than b, than c.
Or, if ³a" is a method call, possibly that ³a² has some setup needed for
³b² and ³c².
All of this is lost with multiple if statements.
Then there¹s the everlasting wisdom of Knuth¹s comment about "premature
optimization is the root of all evil².
Write clean, readable, correct, code. If nothing else, this will provide
the data for your unit tests when you start optimizing.
Once you have a working implementation, then figure out where your time¹s
being spent. But your starting pattern should always be ³clean, readable,
correct², and if the options are mutually exclusive ³if .. else if² is
what meets that requirement.
Greg
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