On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com>wrote:
> removing the "not" from the condition. I admit I choose one over the other > based on some gut-feeling aesthetic that I can't really nail down. I think > one of my major influencing factors revolves around the negative "not" > portion having one or two lines and the positive portion having a large > block of code. If one block is much shorter, I tend to put the shorter block first. That way, the "else" and the "if" are almost always on the screen together at the same time. If they're both long, I factor out one or both of the blocks into functions. -- Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D. President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC <http://stutzbachenterprises.com/>
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