From: Jeff G. <jg...@po...> - 2003-08-11 18:35:43
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Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:53:17PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Larry McVoy wrote: >>are function calls at a 10-nanosecond glance. Also, having two styles >>of 'if' formatting in your example just screams "inconsistent" to me :) > > > It is inconsistent, on purpose. It's essentially like perl's > > return unless pointer; > > which is a oneliner, almost like an assert(). perl is a yucky language full of hacks like this... one of the reasons why I love it :) So while perl's syntax sugar allows my hands to type a bit less, I'll often find myself following a C style and doing return unless statement; In general, I will continue to say the 'if' test should be completely separately from the statement, no matter how short either are. > Maybe this will help: I insist on braces on anything with indentation so > that I can scan them more quickly. If I gave you a choice between > > if (!pointer) { > return (whatever); > } > > if (!pointer) return (whatever); > > which one will you type more often? I actually don't care which you use, > I prefer the shorter one because I don't measure my self worth in lines > of code generated, I tend to favor lines of code deleted :) But either > one is fine, I tend to use the first one if it has been a problem area > and I'm likely to come back and shove in some debugging. > > Before you say "lose the braces" try reading more code and see how much faster > it is if all indented stuff has braces. You whiz through it. Unless you get more than one or two independent 'if' tests like that, then all those braces for a one-line test eat up wasted screen real estate, slowing down the person reading the code. So, if you gave me the choice above, I would choose option C, neither :) >>Absolutely not. I'm cooler, so my opinion counts more. > > > You are in North Carolina, I'm in San Francisco. No competition, you are > sweating like a pig :) > > >>>Same for your eyes when you get to my age. >> >>I bet when you were in school, you had to chip your homework into slate, >>and dinner was brontosaurus-kebob, right? > > > Dinner? You got dinner? Damn, you were spoiled. hehe :) Jeff |