Brutkey

Royce Williams
@tychotithonus@infosec.exchange

What is your preferred conditional comment grammar style? (Assume "X" and "Y" may be of less-trivial length)

• # Do X if Y (3)
• # If Y, do X (57)
• I don't code, you insensitive clod! (5)
• Just show poll results (4)

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John Lusk
@tarheel@mstdn.io

@tychotithonus@infosec.exchange @Gustodon@mas.to

Depends. Depends, depends, depends.

If X isn't some horrible complex expression, I put # do Y under the conditional (in the "then" fork).

If X is some complex condition that can be summarized in English (natural language), I still might break up the comment into # if X and # do Y.

And under the else fork, which may be far away, I basically assert # not X, so do Z. (Again, if X is complex.)

Royce Williams
@tychotithonus@infosec.exchange

@tarheel@mstdn.io

This is excellent nuance. I certainly wouldn't want to force a compact one-line summary when a distributed method would be more clear. So I guess my poll sorta implies "if it's appropriate to be a single line".

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