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From: Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl>
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Subject: Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:06:19 +0000 (UTC)
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Eric Sosman wrote:
) Or, if you prefer, use
)
) 	cfgval = loadConfig(DEFAULT_VALUE);
)
) where loadConfig() loads and returns the value from the configuration
) file, or returns its own argument if unable to load anything.  You
) could even put DEFAULT_VALUE into loadConfig() itself, producing
)
) 	cfgval = loadConfig();
)
) where loadConfig() loads and returns the file's value if it can, or
) returns DEFAULT_VALUE if unable.

I prefer the first, because of the more real-world generic version:
  cfgval = loadConfig('foo_num', FOO_DEFAULT_VALUE);

Which I've used plenty of times.


SaSW, Willem
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