Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: else ladders practice Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:11:18 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: <861pzpu5x5.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <3deb64c5b0ee344acd9fbaea1002baf7302c1e8f@i2pn2.org> <78eabb4054783e30968ae5ffafd6b4ff2e5a5f17@i2pn2.org> <864j4pv76h.fsf@linuxsc.com> <6726C97C.4080807@grunge.pl> <86ldxztzpk.fsf@linuxsc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:11:18 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="22162f0ba694a79b67a6bd5db328b824"; logging-data="1636374"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19+PVDGQCGUiYTeI9ySSA+F85XNds+nMCA=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:p9WxWTGVK6Z6DpPgT4BVWZJ9q7E= sha1:oBUPOrfo5nz4SvG2/TgKrEODXD0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:388867 Bart writes: > On 04/11/2024 04:00, Tim Rentsch wrote: > >> fir writes: >> >>> Tim Rentsch wrote: >>> >>>> With the understanding that I am offering [nothing] more than my >>>> own opinion, I can say that I might use any of the patterns >>>> mentioned, depending on circumstances. I don't think any one >>>> approach is either always right or always wrong. >>> >>> maybe, but some may heve some strong arguments (for use this and >>> not that) i may overlook >> >> I acknowledge the point, but you haven't gotten any arguments, >> only opinions. > > Pretty much everything about PL design is somebody's opinion. First, the discussion is not about language design but language usage. Second, the idea that "pretty much everything" about language usage is just opinion is simply wrong (that holds for language design also). Most of what is offered in newsgroups is just opinion, but there are plenty of objective statements that could be made also. Posters in the newsgroup here rarely make such statements, mostly I think because they don't want to be bothered to make the effort to research the issues. But that doesn't mean there isn't much to say about such things; there is plenty to say, but for some strange reason the people posting in comp.lang.c think their opinions offer more value than statements of objective fact.