Omittable parens is an evil

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Sun Jul 20 05:42:06 PDT 2008


Tomasz Sowiñski:
> When coding, at first, I was glad to be able to snip the parens (makes code look cleaner), but then I came to the same conclusion - the illusory cleanness of code strikes back in the form of trouble with telling "something" and "do something" apart.<

I agree that omittable parens is bad, I always put them.
If parens become compulsive you don't need to use "&somefunc", you just use "somefunc" to denote the pointer/delegate and "somefunc()" to call it.

Bye,
bearophile



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