Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/18/06 12:50

Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <bPidnYclbqY10B7YnZ2dnUVZ_u63nZ2d@comcast.com>,
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Tim Streater wrote:
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> [...]
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>>>If you're doing a test, do a test. If you're sending a packet, send a
>>>packet. These are distinct actions that should be separated.
>>>
>>>That's my style, at any rate.
>>>
>>>-- tim
>>
>>Why? When it makes the code more complicated and harder to understand?
>
>
> Easier is the word you're looking for. Obviously a typo on your part :-)
>

Nope, I meant exactly what I wrote.

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>>It is a test - a test as to whether the action completed successfully or
>>not. But this concept is harder for some old-time programmers to grasp.
>
>
> But the test has side-effects. That is my point.
>

So? There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. You're testing the
results of a dynamic action, not a static value.

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>>Just like in my classes - COBOL and FORTRAN programmers had a lot harder
>>time grasping the concept of pointers as implemented in C than new
>>programmers did.
>
>
> Never did Cobol, thank goodness. Haven't touched Fortran since 1978.
> Since then its been BCPL, C (in large quantities), Z80 assm, and PHP and
> JavaScript more recently.
>
> -- tim

I'm surprised you didn't run into a lot of this in your C coding.

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