This whole conversation really makes me want to ask: How do you know if some code is bad, good or completely ugly ? I've not been programming for long but I've already heard sentences like this: "Damn this piece of code is so bad !" so often that I am really wondering. What are the rules ? Performant code makes total sense but it seems there is something else.

Le��1 juil. 2015 23:36, "stepharo" <stepharo@free.fr> a ��crit��:
I know :D

Le 1/7/15 15:19, jtuchel@objektfabrik.de a ��crit :
Stef,

you're shooting the wrong man! ;-) The crime was committed in your team ;-))))

See you in Brescia

Joachim

Am 30.06.15 um 19:19 schrieb stepharo:


Le 30/6/15 14:39, jtuchel@objektfabrik.de a ��crit :
Ah, Okay, you are mentioning the one and only one case in which this could make sense.... ;-)

Something like

stream next ifNil: [^stream next].

so ugly.
Please we should not teach how to do exception with blocks :)

So there may be cases where the two sends do not return the same result. But that is, of course, not what the OP suggested. Nevertheless, I was too fast in criticizing ;-)

I would consider code like that "less easy" to maintain, however.

Nice thinking Kata ;-)

Joachim



Am 30.06.15 um 14:22 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano:
ah yeah :)

I assumed

first "something aMsg" ~= second "something aMsg���

In case is the same, the correct way is as you say:

^ something aMsg ifNil: [ anotherResult ]

(sorry, he :P)

On 30 Jun 2015, at 13:43, jtuchel@objektfabrik.de wrote:

Am 30.06.15 um 13:40 schrieb Peter Uhn��k:
Make sense if there's code in between.
not sure what you're saying. I mean, sending the message twice makes sense if you already know the outcome? Hmmm...

something aMsg ifNil:[ ^ something aMsg ]. "yay for guards!"
"much more code"
^ aNotherResult

Peter

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