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Empty if clauses can serve to document (Score:1)
if (is_mungo_sorted @items) {
# The list is already in the order we need.
}
else {
# Need to sort them in bogological order.
@items = rearrange @items;
}
There's often a more elegant way to express things but an explicit do-nothing is sometimes the way I think about the problem, and it's good to have a way to comment that.
BTW, why doesn't the comment b
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Re:Empty if clauses can serve to document (Score:1)
That's true. Shlomi Fish also expressed this point.
I personally try not to write things like that because I get irritated seeing an empty if(). It feels like there should be something there and I (or whoever wrote it) has forgotten or hasn't implemented it. So, to me it adds to the confusion but I can see how other people find it useful and expressive. Perhaps there should be a comment that says
# already ordered. do nothing.And yeah, I tried using h2, h3 and other stuff. These boxes don't get much...
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