Posted by Allodoxaphobia on 05/23/05 23:23

On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:45:59 -0400, Dave wrote:
> (joealey2003@yahoo.com) decided we needed to hear...
><snip most of code>
>> if (! $Not_Expired) {
> Nice double-negative - hope you don't normally code this way.

Hah! Reminds me of my olde IBM Assembler Language coding days --
where I had to hack the code of another fella from time-to-time.
He had the infuriating habit of 'encoding' his (sparse and terse)
comments in negative logic:

... <maybe 50 lines of code with _no_ comments.>
CLI RESPONSE,C'N'
BE CLEANUP NBIF CONTINUE
... <only he'd comment NBIF CONT , and the labels
<would've been RESP and CU. sigh...>

I always had a hard time wrapping my head around his View Of The World.
(NBIF was his commenting shorthand for No-Branch-If.)
He, on the other hand, was comfotable with the concept of something
like: "There is Not No Empty Buffers", or the somesuch. Phew!!
I always felt that if you coded a branch at some point in the program,
you should let the next guy know _why_ the branch would be taken....

Jonesy
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