I once thought as you do ;).

Unless there is a performance gain that is:

  1. Truly significant
  2. Actually needed
I stay away from ternary assignment and other forms of code collapse in favor of more verbose easy to read code. I'd far rather opt for clear suboptimal code than optimized idioms that don't really give me much.

Now if there's actual redundancy I'm more inclined to squnch it up.

But I suspect this largely talks past your point of the 'defined or' which, as I'm packing, I haven't yet had time to cogitate over.

o/

Me

In reply to Re^3: Pivoting 2 dimensional array refs by Voronich
in thread Transposing 2 dimensional arrays by Voronich

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