On Nov 16, 2010, at 14:14 , Eric Christopherson wrote: > I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Are you saying it's bad to do > the *first* assignment to a variable inside a conditional? Or it's bad > to assign inside a conditional in any case? I can understand the > first, but I'm not sure how you would work around the second, unless > you used a more functional style like > > x = (n > 2 ? true : false) > > or > > x = (if n > 2; true; else false; end)
this is not an assignment inside a conditional. It is a conditional inside an assignment. And as Jeff pointed out, while just an example, it is a very contrived example (that hits one of my biggest pet peeves). an assignment inside a conditional is do_something(x) if x = logical_statement or if x = logical_statement then do_something(x) else do_something_else end and whether you're coding in ruby, C/++, or whatever... it is almost always considered bad form. Avoid it not only for the reasons I mentioned before, but also to avoid the beat downs you'll get whenever you ask for our community's help. I cannot guarantee your safety otherwise. _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
