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Re: else ladders practice

From Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: else ladders practice
Date 2024-11-30 14:07 -0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 16.11.2024 16:14, James Kuyper wrote:
>
>> On 11/16/24 04:42, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> #include <stdio.h>
>>>
>>> const char * english( int const n )
>>> { const char * result;
>>>   if( n == 0 )result = "zero";
>>>   if( n == 1 )result = "one";
>>>   if( n == 2 )result = "two";
>>>   if( n == 3 )result = "three";
>>>   else        result = "four";
>>>   return result; }
>
> That's indeed a nice example.  Where you get fooled by treachery
> "trustiness" of formatting[*]. - In syntax we trust!  [**]

Misleading formatting is the lesser of two problems.  A more
significant bad design choice is writing in an imperative
style rather than a functional style.

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Re: else ladders practice Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-11-30 14:07 -0800

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