Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 03:46:00 01/09/04
By reading this forum, I've understood that "if" statements are considered evil and that it is often a good idea to remove them if it is possible. Suppose that I have code which looks like this: if(x) y += 20; Would it then be advantageous to rewrite the code like this? y += (!(!x))*20; In my evaluation function, I have a lot of conditionals which could be avoided by using tricks similar to the one above, but before doing it I would like to make sure it is really a good idea. After all, the first form above is much more readable. Tord
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