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tricolon on May 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code

I think it's fascinating that we prefer styles that are almost opposites:

    int samedirfile(Dir *a, Dir *b) {
        if(a == b) {
            return 1;
        }

        return (a && b)
            && (a->qid.type == b->qid.type)
            && (a->qid.path == b->qid.path)
            && (a->qid.vers == b->qid.vers)
            && (a->dev == b->dev)
            && (a->type == b->type);
    }
    
    ...
    
    if(samedirfile(a, b)) {
        fprint(2, "cp: %s and %s are the same file\n", an, bn);
        ret = 1;
    }

MaulingMonkey on May 28, 2013 [–]

I'll note I actually have a slight preference for prepended continuation operators like you have, but I stick to the style used at work for the sake of my sanity in trying to write consistent code.

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