Re: else ladders practice

On 31/10/2024 12:11, fir wrote:

somethins i got such pices of code like
 if(n==1) {/*something/}
if(n==2) {/*something/}
if(n==3) {/*something/}
if(n==4) {/*something/}
if(n==5) {/*something/}
 technically i would need to add elses - but the question is if to do that

Why not ...
switch (n)
{
     case 1:
         /* something */
         break;
     case 2:
/* etc ... */
     default:
         /* something else */
}
... ?

 do teh code has really chance to be slower without else (except some very prmitive compilers) ??
 not adding else makes liek code shorter.. so im not literally sure which is better

The size of teh [sic] source code won't make any difference to the size of the executable - so aim for readability first and foremost.