[OT] Re: The Is Operator
Jarrett Billingsley
kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 3 05:58:41 PDT 2007
"Robert Fraser" <fraserofhenight at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:fdvg0m$2c3e$1 at digitalmars.com...
> From some experience in Perl, I can say unless(P) is slightly clearer than
> if(!P) and until(P) is slightly clearer than while(!P) ... in most cases.
> I'm not arguing it should be added to D (esp. since if there are multiple
> ways to express something, stuff can get confusing), but they _do_ make
> code just that much easier to read.
>
> On that note, I'm also a slight fan of the postfix notation for simple ifs
> (i.e. something like "a = b if b;" or "file.read() while
> file.hasMoreBytes();"), but it makes parsing a *****.
Course you also get people who think it's "cute" to do something like
while(someCondition)
{
.....
3 pages of code...
.....
}
if(someOtherCondition)
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