I think its more of a personal choice, but for options I prefer switches
because its easier to figure out after coding for 17 hours streight and
thats more of what it was designed for.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Drylar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:52 PM
Subject: Question About C
> Let me begin by saying hello all, again. It's been 3 years since I last
was
> on the list. I'm starting up a MUD again, and was working on a major
> overhaul to stock. I'm past the initial stages, and was working on
cleaning
> up and enhancing the code and wondered which is faster and which saves
more
> memory between if/elseif/else and switches.
> either:
>
> if (option="alpha")
> elseif (option="beta"0
> ...
> else
>
> -or-
>
> switch(LOWER (option[0]){
> case "a":
> case "b":
> ...
> }
>
> BTW I gotta mention this, as it took me 117 man hours to complete (and I
am
> SO proud of it): I converted EVERY flag to extended bitvectoring! No more
32
> flag limit! (I am using an int, which has a cap of 32767, but i could
always
> go to unsigned or double if i needed more than that) By EVERY I mean EVERY
> flag.. not just affect/act/comm flags... 8^)
>
> Thanks in advance for any help as to my 'stupid' question about something
> inherent to C. (If it helps, I use gcc to compile)
>
> MudProgrammer...
> HEAVILY Modified Rom2.4b6:OLC2.01+Custom Enhancements, Custom Color,
Custom
> Clan System, Custom VT100 Extensions, 20 Races, 50 Tier'd Classes
>
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