At 1:04 PM -0400 4/6/06, Robert Cummings wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 11:50, tedd wrote:
Regardless of speed, I find that switch is much easier to write and
debug than if/elseif -- which, regardless of my shortcomings, I never
use.
Umm, that you NEVER use elseif I think is strongly coupled with your
shortcomings :l But I'm not judging, to each his own :|
Cheers,
Rob.
Rob:
Yes NEVER -- as for my shortcomings, they remain as obvious as is my
lack of pretense otherwise. Whereas, my abilities, like most, are not
as obvious. As Will Roger's once said "We're all ignorant, only in
different subjects."
But regardless of my limitations, I still have never had to use an
if/elseif for anything -- and I wrote my first line of code in 1966.
I don't remember specifically just when if/elseif and switch-like
conditionals first appeared in programming (they haven't always been
there and my old Fortran books have been long stored) but I have one
in front of me that's dated 1976 where it just mentions "The Logical
IF Statement" with no if/else or switch-like statements.
So, my programming probably predates both conditions -- however -- in
40 years I have NEVER used an if/elseif control structure by any name
and I always found a way around it -- and one that was usually faster
and with better readability.
If your strong-comings are better than my shortcomings, then perhaps
you could provide an example of where a switch could not preform what
an if/elseif could -- do you have one?
My gut feeling is that you can't -- as well as my gut feeling that
when language developers first thought of if/elseif control, they
realized that it was confusing and provided a switch to get around
it. But, then again, maybe I'm wrong -- been there before. :-)
tedd
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