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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
Subject: Re: Thought this was funny
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:44:18 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-10-21T20:44:18+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnbpb6l2.7mk.lutz@belenus.iks-jena.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Xns941BE43E6D5C2cblamstudentutwenten@130.89.1.105

* Ching Bon Lam wrote:
>> case <boolean expression> is
>>   when true =>
>>        <do something>
>> 
>>   when false =>
>>        <do something else>
> 
> isn't it good programming style to always include "when others"? :)

No. Its good programming style to not include "when others" in order to
detect changes of the enumeration type in the program flow.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-21 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-21 19:49 Thought this was funny Xenos
2003-10-21 20:26 ` Ching Bon Lam
2003-10-21 20:44   ` Lutz Donnerhacke [this message]
2003-10-21 20:36 ` Ed Falis
2003-10-21 21:08 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-21 22:16   ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-21 22:24     ` Ed Falis
2003-10-22  0:36       ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-22  1:37         ` Ed Falis
2003-10-22  3:56           ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-22 13:44             ` Ed Falis
2003-10-21 23:13     ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-10-22  0:23     ` Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2003-10-21 22:23   ` Simon Wright
2003-10-22  2:57 ` Steve
2003-10-22  6:26 ` Anders Wirzenius
2003-10-22  6:36 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-10-22 12:38   ` Christopher J. Henrich
2003-10-22 15:00 ` Martin Dowie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-22  6:44 christoph.grein
2003-10-22  7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-22  8:48   ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-10-23  2:17 ` Wes Groleau
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