SPUG:Best One-Liners and Scripts for UNIX
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tim at consultix-inc.com
Sun Apr 20 15:47:31 CDT 2003
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 11:55:20AM -0700, Brian Hatch wrote:
>
> However this is best used when the default or desired thing
> is on the left.
>
> die if something_very_unusual_happened
>
> is bad form, instead you should stick to
>
> if something_very_unusual_happened {
> die
I agree completely, and seeing lots of violations of this principle is
one of the reasons I generally counsel against the backwards style. I've
often wasted time reading and trying to comprehend a large chunk of
complicated code only to see "if $leapyear" at the end! 8-}
-Tim
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