mcinglis

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   by mcinglis 2y ago

   Author here, 10 years later -- I agree. I'd remove that rule wholesale in an update of this guide. Unsigned integer types can and should be used, especially for memory sizes. I would still advocate for large signed types over unsigne
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   by mcinglis 2y ago

   As the author 10 years later, I agree. A hard-and-fast rule to ban switch, as that rule seems to advocate, is silly and terrible. Switch has many valid uses. However, I also often see switch used in places where functional decomposition wou
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   by mcinglis 2y ago

   I was surprised to see this on the HN front page, after so many years. Thanks for sharing it! Suffice to say: my opinions on this topic have shifted significantly. A decade+ more of programming-in-the-large, and I no longer pay much heed to