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[–] guber@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child) if else chain? believe of or not, straight to jail. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (1 child) Hey, when you gotta pick a value from a bunch of options, it's either if/elseif/else, ternary, switch/case, or a map/dict. Ternary generally has the easiest to read format of the options, unless you put it all on one line like a crazy person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] guber@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children) me personally, i prefer switch case statements for many-value selection, but if ternary works for you, go ham (as long as you don't happen to be the guy who's code I keep having to scrub lol) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago If there's more than two branches in the decision tree I'll default to a if/else or switch/case except if I want to initialise a const to a conditional value, which is one of the places I praise the lord for ternaries. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) Switch is good if you only need to compare equals when selecting a value. Although some languages make it way more powerful, like python match. but I generally dislike python despite of this, and I generally dislike switch because the syntax and formatting is just too unlike the rest of the languages. Generally I prefer the clear brevity of: var foo= x>100 ? bar : x>50 ? baz : x>10 ? qux : quux; Over var foo; if(x>100) { foo=bar; } else if(x>50) { foo=baz; } else if(x>10) { foo=qux; } else { foo=quux; } Which doesn't really get any better if you remove the optional (but recommended) braces. Heck, I even prefer ternary over some variations of switch for equals conditionals, like the one in Java: var foo; switch(x) { case 100: foo=bar; break; case 50: foo=baz; break; case 10: foo=qux; break; default: foo=quux; } But some languages do switch better than others (like python as previously mentioned), so there are certainly cases where that'd probably be preferable even to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (1 child) Hey, when you gotta pick a value from a bunch of options, it's either if/elseif/else, ternary, switch/case, or a map/dict. Ternary generally has the easiest to read format of the options, unless you put it all on one line like a crazy person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] guber@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children) me personally, i prefer switch case statements for many-value selection, but if ternary works for you, go ham (as long as you don't happen to be the guy who's code I keep having to scrub lol) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago If there's more than two branches in the decision tree I'll default to a if/else or switch/case except if I want to initialise a const to a conditional value, which is one of the places I praise the lord for ternaries. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) Switch is good if you only need to compare equals when selecting a value. Although some languages make it way more powerful, like python match. but I generally dislike python despite of this, and I generally dislike switch because the syntax and formatting is just too unlike the rest of the languages. Generally I prefer the clear brevity of: var foo= x>100 ? bar : x>50 ? baz : x>10 ? qux : quux; Over var foo; if(x>100) { foo=bar; } else if(x>50) { foo=baz; } else if(x>10) { foo=qux; } else { foo=quux; } Which doesn't really get any better if you remove the optional (but recommended) braces. Heck, I even prefer ternary over some variations of switch for equals conditionals, like the one in Java: var foo; switch(x) { case 100: foo=bar; break; case 50: foo=baz; break; case 10: foo=qux; break; default: foo=quux; } But some languages do switch better than others (like python as previously mentioned), so there are certainly cases where that'd probably be preferable even to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] guber@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children) me personally, i prefer switch case statements for many-value selection, but if ternary works for you, go ham (as long as you don't happen to be the guy who's code I keep having to scrub lol) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago If there's more than two branches in the decision tree I'll default to a if/else or switch/case except if I want to initialise a const to a conditional value, which is one of the places I praise the lord for ternaries. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) Switch is good if you only need to compare equals when selecting a value. Although some languages make it way more powerful, like python match. but I generally dislike python despite of this, and I generally dislike switch because the syntax and formatting is just too unlike the rest of the languages. Generally I prefer the clear brevity of: var foo= x>100 ? bar : x>50 ? baz : x>10 ? qux : quux; Over var foo; if(x>100) { foo=bar; } else if(x>50) { foo=baz; } else if(x>10) { foo=qux; } else { foo=quux; } Which doesn't really get any better if you remove the optional (but recommended) braces. Heck, I even prefer ternary over some variations of switch for equals conditionals, like the one in Java: var foo; switch(x) { case 100: foo=bar; break; case 50: foo=baz; break; case 10: foo=qux; break; default: foo=quux; } But some languages do switch better than others (like python as previously mentioned), so there are certainly cases where that'd probably be preferable even to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago If there's more than two branches in the decision tree I'll default to a if/else or switch/case except if I want to initialise a const to a conditional value, which is one of the places I praise the lord for ternaries. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) Switch is good if you only need to compare equals when selecting a value. Although some languages make it way more powerful, like python match. but I generally dislike python despite of this, and I generally dislike switch because the syntax and formatting is just too unlike the rest of the languages. Generally I prefer the clear brevity of: var foo= x>100 ? bar : x>50 ? baz : x>10 ? qux : quux; Over var foo; if(x>100) { foo=bar; } else if(x>50) { foo=baz; } else if(x>10) { foo=qux; } else { foo=quux; } Which doesn't really get any better if you remove the optional (but recommended) braces. Heck, I even prefer ternary over some variations of switch for equals conditionals, like the one in Java: var foo; switch(x) { case 100: foo=bar; break; case 50: foo=baz; break; case 10: foo=qux; break; default: foo=quux; } But some languages do switch better than others (like python as previously mentioned), so there are certainly cases where that'd probably be preferable even to me. permalink fedilink source parent