From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f822ae7b0f7433c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Persson Subject: Re: Translating an embedded C algorithm Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1168871816.263502.212100@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com> <45ace573$1_3@news.bluewin.ch> <68qioe.mes.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1168963927.396654.169380@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <11e7vht8gdl0z$.2dypcyr85i3w.dlg@40tude.net> <147rcq0tjavdf.lzroutxxh59k$.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:27:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.96.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1169238420 83.250.96.174 (Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:27:00 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:27:00 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8347 Date: 2007-01-19T20:27:00+00:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak wrote: > Bj�rn Persson wrote: > >>> C has case statements as well. >> >> The switch statement is utterly broken (so to speak). I prefer not to use >> it. I suppose my code contains slightly more "==" because of this. > > What have you gained? Is your code more readable? Easier for maintenance? I get rid of the risk of forgetting a break, so my code is hopefully less buggy. I feel that the risk that I'll forget a break is greater than the risk that I'll make an assignment instead of a comparison. If you feel the other way, maybe you'll choose to use the switch statement. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu