Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Walter Bright]

On 12/27/2017 1:00 PM, Atila Neves wrote:
> I nearly always reorganise my code so that my `if` statements are positive 
> precisely because of this. The only times I don't is when the negative branch is 
> a lot shorter, so I "get it out of the way" sooner. Even then I try to rename 
> the boolean value to not require negation.
> 
> I had a hard time convincing my colleagues at my previous job that this was an 
> issue. Then again I had a hard time convincing them unit tests were a good idea, 
> so there's that.

I once talked to a real estate agent who told me his proxy for a well-built 
house was whether the screw slots on the electrical outlets lined up or not.