On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:31:04PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> What do the code rules say for
>
> if (a) {
> return b;
> } else if (d) {
> return e;
> } else {
> // main stuff
> return c;
> }
>
> I'd actually prefer
>
> if (a) {
> return b;
> }
> if (d) {
> return e;
> }
> // main stuff
> return c;
>
> especially if there are more "cases" or (a) and (d) are "enforcing"
> prerequisites for "//stuff"...
but this loses the semantic information that a and d are mutually exclusive.
That's important.
regards
john
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