Parenthesis

[Dawid Ciężarkiewicz]

Kristian Kilpi wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:08:31 +0200, Gregor Richards <Richards at codu.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> NN wrote:
>>> What about removing unuseful parenthesis in 'if', 'for', 'while' ?

NEVA! :)

> I did some testing. I use a scandinavian keyboard: 'Shift + 8' -> '(' and
> 'Shift + 9' -> ')'. I wrote "if a == 1" ten times, and then "if(a == 1)"
> (without the quotation marks):
> 
> "if a == 1" : 21 secs.
> "if(a == 1)" : 29 secs.
> 
> (The starting and stopping of my timer took some time.) So, "if a == 1" is
> 28% faster than "if(a == 1)"...

Good code is written once and read for years.