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From: "Leon Jones" <leon.jones@lineone.net>
Subject: Re: Coding for Obscurity
Date: 1997/11/26
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Robert S. White <nospam@somewhere.ia.us> wrote in article
<65fr08$vtu$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>...
> In article <3479F8FB.2D7F@mWilden.com>, Mark@mWilden.com says...
> 
> >But ?: is not an idiom; it's a part of the language definition. I'll
> >give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that when you think it
> >through, you understand it.
> 
>   I _understood_ it in 1983.   But right now in thinking about 
> it, I'll say that it would have been better from a code maintenance
> point of view, that K&R had never thought of it as a convenient
> typing shortcut.  IMHO YMMV 

Couldn't agree more.  Ternary operators are horrendous and I avoid them at
all costs.  I've been programming for years and I still have to study them
closely before I understand exactly what they do.  It is just not as
natural a representation as if/else statements.  Also it doesn't allow for
indentation which is surely good programming technique in anyone's book??

Leon.

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