[ On , October 6, 2000 at 02:39:20 (+0200), Johan Danielsson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: setting and using progname.
>
> Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com> writes:
> 
> > What's wrong with '?:' ?  It's perfectly good code and not silly at
> > all.  If anything, it's more concise for a simple test.
> 
> But if the code gets a lot more complicated than x ? y : z, it gets
> very hard to read.

Liberal and consistent use of parenthesis, newlines, and indentation can
help make nested '?:' statements easier to read, just as liberal and
consistent use of braces, newlines, and indentation can help make nested
'if else' statements easier to read.


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