<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Richard O'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Me, I've always considered it better style to do<br>
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name := expression.<br>
name ifNotNil: [...].</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Slightly inaccurate. It is really</div><div> | name |</div><div> ...</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "> name := expression.<br>
name ifNotNil: [...]<div></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">vs</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> expression ifNotNil: [:name|...]</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Being readably concise, free of boiler-plate and economical with vertical real-estate are far better style than their converses, IMO.</span></div>
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