10 Mar
2025
10 Mar
'25
3:06 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 10:52:20AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 10:41???AM Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Exactly. It's not that Clem and I are stupid, we aren't. It's that we
want to use our brains to work on stuff that is actually hard. Making
us spend effort on "silly" stuff is just rude, just don't do that. You
are entitled to your opinion for sure, but you are less entitled when
that opinion creates pointless work for other people.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 03:12:06AM -0600,
arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Me too.
I think, as in all things, "always use
parentheses" can be carried
too far. I find
if (a == b && c == d)
perfectly reasonable, but
if ((a == b) && (c == d))
to be just silly.
Color me silly then. My eyes parse the "silly" form faster.
Exactly.
And I was the boss so my eyes won. Over time,
everyone at my shop came
to agree with me.
One mans silly is another mans faster reading.
The problem is that in the first form, you have to slow down to ensure you
have the order correctly, Maybe it's my dyslexia speaking, but the
"extra"
parens make it clear without having to slow down.