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No, because that makes it harder to understand what it's doing. Without looking at an example of working code, how is it possible to say that one particular ph
by chromatic 15y ago
No, because that makes it harder to understand what it's doing.
Without looking at an example of working code, how is it possible to say that one particular phrasing is so obviously better than any other that it and it alone should be allowed to exist?
I appreciate in Perl very much the postfix conditional expression syntax because it exploits the end weight linguistic property and allows me to emphasize the most important part of the statement when the situation warrants. I believe that makes my code clearer because it looks different from the Algol-standard conditional syntax.
- vorg 15y ago> Perl ... allows me to emphasize the most important part of the statement when the situation warrants. Yes. The ordering of elements in a sentence is its "thematic" structure, just as important in communicating as the "transitive" structure of sentences, i.e the relationship between nouns, verbs, etc. Most programming languages copy the transitive structure of natural languages, but not many allow the programmer to freely choose the thematic structure.