Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : CBFalconer
Date : Sat Aug 13 2005 09:40 am

Chris Sonnack wrote:
> Charles Richmond writes:
> 
>> In C, the word TRUE is typically defined as 1 and FALSE defined
>> as 0. This guy made FALSE an integer variable, and changed the
>> value a few times in the code.
> 
> Yikes!
> 
> My horror story is about the self-described C programmer, who'd
> been at it for many years, and who was surprised when I showed
> him you could 'break' out of a for or while loop.....

I had a piece of tangled code that I had reworked into the form:

    if ( ) {
       ...
    }
    else if ( ) {
       ...
    }
    else if ( ) {
       ...
    }
    else if ( ) {
       ...
    }
etc.  A few months later I found an old hand reworking it into:    
    if ( ) {
       ...
    }
    else
       if ( ) {
          ...
       }
       else
          if ( ) {
             ...
          }
          else
             if ( ) {
                ...
             }

He claimed it was clearer.  There may have been an extra set of
braces after the elses.  I didn't even argue.  

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