Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code

Re:Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code by jlgreco on Friday May 24, 2013 @04:28PM (#5765037)

This also makes individual conditions slightly easier to comment out.

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Re:Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code by vy8vWJlco on Friday May 24, 2013 @05:42PM (#5765332)

And yank/cut/copy, and re-order, and type-over, and... I have developed similar habits after using line-based editors. This is very easy code to modify. (Notice the return type on a line all its own.)

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Re:Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code by jlgreco on Friday May 24, 2013 @05:59PM (#5765406)

Exactly. You could easily consider this to be defensive code in a similar way as always using 'break' with the last case of a switch-case is defensive.

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Re:Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code by Groxx on Friday May 24, 2013 @08:22PM (#5765913)

I hadn't considered this before... interesting!

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