A question of commas

Michael T. Sullivan sullivan at aqdata.uucp
Fri Dec 8 06:22:15 AEST 1989


>From article <257E97F4.24962 at ateng.com>, by chip at ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg):
> 
> For example, "i = i + 1" is inherently harder to read than "i++", since the

But more programmers (BASIC, pascal, etc.) use "i = i + 1", and using "i++"
assumes future programmers working with the code know C.  Obviously, the
first choice is the correct choice :-|.
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