Re: A CodingStyle suggestion

[Manu Abraham]

On 2/4/07, Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In CodingStyle Chapter 16 "Function return value and names", why not
> adding a comment about the favorable community way of checking the return
> value. ie:
>
> ret = do_method();
> if (ret) {
>    /* deal with error */
> }
>
> and not other ways like:
>
> if (do_method()) or if ((ret = do_method()) > value) ...


if we have some 100 lines of

ret = do_method()
if (ret) {
/* error handling */
}

This is going to additionally increase the number of lines of unnecessarily.

IMHO, when you have a large number of lines which do a similar thing ..

if ((ret = do_method()) < value)
  goto err;

could greatly reduce the number of lines, otherwise.

manu
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