On 12/25/11 5:13 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Sunday, 25 December 2011 at 04:44:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I see every letter beyond this as a liability:
Yeah, though like Jacob said, the implementation doesn't
matter as much as the idea of giving it a name.
But, if you're curious about why I wrote it long form, it's
just a quirk I sometimes do; if I read something out loud
differently than how I wrote it, I'll sometimes rewrite it.
Here, I dictated it to myself as "if it's divisible by two,
return false (not odd), otherwise, return true (is odd)", and
decided to write it almost exactly like that.
I understand. Personally, I am unable to bring myself to fathom why
writing this has any advantage:
if (condition)
return true; // or false
else
return false; // or true, respectively
as much as I'm unable to fathom why writing this has any advantage:
if (expression == true) ...
or
if (expression == false) ...
I might be biased, but I ask for it to be corrected if I see it during a
code review at work, and if someones writes such during an interview, it
doesn't gain them any points.
Usually, these little things are meaningless once compiled,
but check this out:
[snip]
I'd say that's a good enhancement request for the backend.
Andrei
