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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 09:35:17 +0100
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On 05.03.2025 08:02, vallor wrote:
> 
> It may forever label me as a pariah, but if I were writing
> this for myself, I'd probably put it:
> 
> if  (
>       (a != b && c != d && e != f)
>       ||
>       (g = h() * i() && (j = k)
>     )

Why "pariah"?
That looks (while maybe not prevalent) quite clear and sensible.

It hasn't prevented you from a missing parenthesis, though. ;-)

There's a reason why I dislike languages whose syntax is cluttered
with parentheses, compared to (for example)

    IF  a /= b  AND  c /= d  AND  e /= f
        OR
        g = h * i  AND  j = k
    THEN

(Note that this code is not equivalent to the "C" code (assignment
vs. equality test)[*]. It should just illustrate what it means if all
those spurious parenthesis are omitted from a language. Of course
you can also add parenthesis around the 'AND' expressions to make
things clear. But 'if' or functions without parameters don't need
parenthesis [in other non-"C"-like languages].)

Janis

[*] The sample based on Algol 68 doesn't treat an 'int' as a 'bool'.
So functionally more equivalent something like this may be given

    IF  a /= b AND c /= d AND e /= f
        OR
        (g := h * i; g /= 0) AND (j := k; j)

assuming j, k be bools, or  (j := k; j != 0)  if they are ints.

Pascal has a similar parenthesis-free syntax concerning the control
constructs and parameterless functions, but (surprisingly) they had
decided to have relational expressions written in parenthesis in
such contexts:  (a <> b) AND (c <> d) AND (e <> f)


>     {
>         foo();
>     }
> 
> [...]