Re: Clever vs. Readable

Don't forget the ultimate in readability, clunkiness, and lack of cleverness: (for new programmers)

my $min;
if( $a <= $b){ $min = $a}else{ $min = $b }
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Re^2: Clever vs. Readable by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 09, 2008 at 20:53 UTC
Yeah, but what happens when this simplistic (not simple) approach is taken in the wild is that the `if/else` grows into a 300 line `if/elsif` and the `else` to catch fail cases never seems to be there. I'm going through this again at work because a very experienced and generally intelligent manager there would rather do an open-ended if/elsif tree than a hash lookup, "Because it's easier to read."	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Clever vs. Readable by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 09, 2008 at 20:55 UTC
In that case, I'd prefer ALGOL: `min := IF a < b THEN a ELSE b FI;` [download] (It's a long time since I last coded in ALGOL, so I might have details of the syntax not correct).	[reply] [d/l]