To me, this actually explains why the i == 1 && do_stuff() idiom feels so 
unnatural: you'd never mix a declarative statement with an imperative statement 
in English using only an "and" or an "or". "4 == 2 + 2 and go home" is verging 
on being Doge.

 -- John

On Mar 20, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote:

> I always just read them like this:
> 
> cond "and" do_something
> cond "or" do_something
> 
> That seems like it reads pretty naturally to me. This is also one of the 
> reasons I've occasionally brought up the idea of having "and" and "or" 
> keywords.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Leah Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not so sure about i == 1 && do_stuff() being readable, but I think it's 
> better than do_stuff() if i==1. Every time I see i==1 && do_stuff(), I have 
> to stop and reason about what it's doing, but at least it isn't tricky. With 
> && either you can read it easily, or you see that something weird is going 
> on; with end of line if's, it's always this surprising thing where you need 
> to reconsider the preceding part of the line (which makes it much more 
> appealing for the person *writing* the code than the one *reading* it.
> 
> -- Leah
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Jacob Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree. I've never liked python's do_stuff() if i == 1. It's too 
> disconcerting to parse what's going on and then have to backtrack and think 
> about the condition that came afterwards. I've found the i == 1 && do_stuff() 
> has become really natural after only using it a few times.
> 
> -Jacob
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Ivar Nesje <[email protected]> wrote:
> The suffix `if` and `unless` is the reason I never managed to become literate 
> in Ruby. Maybe it is just a matter of time and experience, but I read code 
> lines from left to right, and my mental read buffer is not long enough to see 
> the `if` that someone hid at the end of the line.
> 
> 
> 

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