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Re: More elegance than a long if/else
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Re: More elegance than a long if/else

  • Subject: Re: More elegance than a long if/else
  • From: Pascal Bourguignon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:30:09 +0100
> On 11 Mar 2017, at 09:57, Quincey Morris <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Mar 10, 2017, at 17:35 , Pascal Bourguignon <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> this is much clearer in intent than return x+y.  So much clearer…
>
> My argument is not that the original solution was clearer because longer, but that it was longer because clearer.
>


My argument is that algebraic expressions are clearer than switches.


--
__Pascal J. Bourguignon__



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