RE: convert this code

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Joel Fritz
>
> This is a style issue, and I think you're going to get some argument. <g>

See my reply to Carel.  You may think it's a style issue, I don't.  Bad
coding is not "style", it's just bad programming.  But we can agree to
disagree.


> In my first C class in junior college, the instructor gave us expressions
> like this to evaluate on tests.  When I asked him about some of the
> convoluted stuff (much more obscure than these loop control statements) he
> threw at us he said something to the effect that a lot of people
> write code
> like this and you'll lose if you can't read it.  He especially
> liked things
> that combined multiple levels of indirection with blurring the distinction
> between logic and arithmetic.

Your instructor was an idiot.


> As a matter of personal taste, I don't care to write code like that, but I
> can understand how someone would. I don't think it usually has anything to
> do with job security--just a desire to cram as much as possible into as
> little space as you can.

I dinged people on their performance reviews if they insisted on coding that
way.  There is no place for it in a business environment.  You want to code
like that, do it at home.

Joe "Doesn't Feel Like Beating Around the Bush" Pluta