Thread: figuring out code

Originally Posted by quzah

It is sort of like this discussion.

Putting "if( 0 == var )" compared to "if( var == 0 )" is really no different than saying "value[array]" compared to "array[value]".

There's no difference at all.

The only reason it's "silly", or "stupid" is because you were first taught that "array[value]" was "right". Damn, have some quotation marks!

But as far as one being better, it's just simply not so. It's purely personal preference. They're identical. There's nothing in the language to indicate one is better than the other. It's just because that's how you learned it, so that must be right.

If you want to be silly, you could say: 0[X + Y] == *(X + Y)
Of course, you'd still be right; they'd be equally correct, and equally as easy to understand.


Quzah.

I might debate the "easy to understand" part... And yes it is a matter of custom and , for the most part, it just looks wrong... and that might serve to reduce my understanding of the code, causing me to make errors... or far worse... give bad advice

I know it doesn't actually make any difference to the compiler... But I'm not a compiler... I'm an interpreter...