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From: ddl@husc6.UUCP (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Writing readable code
Message-ID: <2379@husc6.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 21:03:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: husc6.2379
Posted: Tue Jun 23 21:03:31 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 04:15:07 EDT
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In article <1158@copper.TEK.COM>, stevesu@copper.TEK.COM (Steve Summit) writes:
|      b)	I actively prefer
| 
| 		if(p != NULL)
| 	to
| 		if(!p)
| 
| 	I know that they are 100% equivalent as far as a correct
| 	compiler is concerned (and they are; let's not get
| 	started on that again), and I have "mastered the idiom,"
| 	but the second form takes enough extra thought, and is
| 	confusing enough to the uninitiated, that it just plain
| 	isn't worth the seven characters saved.

	Are you absolutely sure that you have "mastered the idiom?" :-)
(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

					Dan Lanciani
					ddl@harvard.*