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ernesth on May 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code

When you use the fact that && is not the logical conjunction, you'd better use another if.

    if (b != nil)
    if (b->bla == a->bla)

is so much clearer (and language agnostic) than

    if (b != nil && b->bla == a->bla)

piokuc on May 24, 2013 | [–]

I've never heard about writing language agnostic code in my life, lol!

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