Comment on proportional reaction

• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If there’s more than two branches in the decision tree I’ll default to a if/else or switch/case except if I want to initialise a const to a conditional value, which is one of the places I praise the lord for ternaries.

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Switch is good if you only need to compare equals when selecting a value.
  Although some languages make it way more powerful, like python match.
  but I generally dislike python despite of this, and I generally dislike switch because the syntax and formatting is just too unlike the rest of the languages.

  Generally I prefer the clear brevity of:

  var foo=
      x>100 ? bar :
      x>50 ? baz :
      x>10 ? qux :
      quxx;
  

  Over

  var foo;
  if(x>100) {
      foo=bar;
  } else if(x>50) {
      foo=baz;
  } else if(x>10) {
      foo=qux;
  } else {
      foo=quxx
  }
  

  Which doesn’t really get any better if you remove the optional (but recommended) braces.
  Heck, I even prefer ternary over some variations of switch for equals conditionals, like the one in Java:

  var foo;
  switch(x) {
  case 100:
      foo=bar;
      break;
  case 50:
      foo=baz;
      break;
  case 10:
      foo=qux;
      break;
  default:
      foo=quxx;
  }
  

  But some languages do switch better than others (like python as previously mentioned), so there are certainly cases where that’d probably be preferable even to me.

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