Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>: > > > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SwitchStatementsSmell > > Your brief summary, please, Mark? > > Anyway, the first 1000 lines or so that I managed to read from that page > stated a valid principle, which however doesn't invalidate the existence > of a switch statement.
The first sentence on that page explains that it's describing a “code smell”, with a link to the page which explains that term <URL:http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CodeSmell>. Did you read that page? A code smell is an indication that something is wrong in the code. That indication is not 100% accurate; the point is that it's accurate enough to be worth further scrutiny to find what problem may be causing the smell. > However, like all other maxims, that principle, too, has exceptions. Of course. That's the point of describing something as a “code smell”: it may have exceptions where the smell does not indicate an actual problem, but those are not the normal case where the smell is encountered. More often, it indicates a problem that should be fixed. -- \ “Members of the general public commonly find copyright rules | `\ implausible, and simply disbelieve them.” —Jessica Litman, | _o__) _Digital Copyright_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
