tedd wrote:
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.
I remember IF constructs from BASIC and PASCAL, but no switch statements
(somebody correct me if I'm wrong). But what I'm wondering is how in
the world did you do conditional checking if there were no switches, and
you don't use IF's? Did you not code error handling, different cases
based on user input, status of a data stream, etc in all the years prior
to something like switch being introduced???
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