From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-08-15T06:40:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Best practice for set-and-test idiom?

Kevin Nolan wrote:
(snip)
> I know -- I just omitted it for the sake of brevity. Do you have any 
> thoughts about a better, or my ruby-like technique?

Actually I suck at these kinds of stylistic questions. If I want 
somebody else (where "somebody else" includes "me, after a few months 
when I've forgotten what I was doing") to be able to easily understand 
my code I use the "long" version with no short-cuts. If it's just for me 
I stick with the first thing that works.

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