RE: constant string array

["Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>]

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From: Jeff Carter [mailto:jrcarter@acm.org]

I totally agree with you on the use of the 
boolean expression, as opposed to the "if" 
equivalent.  I find it more rare than not, that
the "if" version contributes anything significant
to the clarity.

> Such people frequently do other irritating things,
> like putting unnecessary parentheses around the
> condition of an if

To me this is a non-issue.  Use them, don't use
them.  Who cares?  I don't care so long as they don't
decrease readability.  But, definitely use them
if they increase readability, as in making precedence
clearer, or dealing with compound statements containing
multiple "or else" and "and then".  Or should I say
(or else) and (and then).  :-)

The powers that be that decided what style guide we
were to follow (turned out to be a combination plus
some of their own), decreed that for "if" statements,
"thou shalt use parenthesis" to enclose the statement.
As in "if () then", no matter what "()" contained.
They wanted consistency and it wasn't worth arguing,
because "if (success) then" is no harder to read than
"if success then".

Frank