Re: else ladders practice

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

On 04/11/2024 04:00, Tim Rentsch wrote:
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fir <fir@grunge.pl> writes:
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Tim Rentsch wrote:
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With the understanding that I am offering [nothing] more than my
own opinion, I can say that I might use any of the patterns
mentioned, depending on circumstances.  I don't think any one
approach is either always right or always wrong.

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maybe, but some may heve some strong arguments (for use this and
not that) i may overlook

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I acknowledge the point, but you haven't gotten any arguments,
only opinions.

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Pretty much everything about PL design is somebody's opinion.

First, the discussion is not about language design but language
usage.

Second, the idea that "pretty much everything" about language usage
is just opinion is simply wrong (that holds for language design
also).  Most of what is offered in newsgroups is just opinion, but
there are plenty of objective statements that could be made also.
Posters in the newsgroup here rarely make such statements, mostly I
think because they don't want to be bothered to make the effort to
research the issues.  But that doesn't mean there isn't much to say
about such things;  there is plenty to say, but for some strange
reason the people posting in comp.lang.c think their opinions offer
more value than statements of objective fact.