
24 Oct
2006
24 Oct
'06
12:29 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Dave Menendez wrote:
Henning Thielemann writes:
Actually if-then-else isn't used that often today. Most programmers gave it up in favor of guards.
I question both these statements. Can you cite some evidence here?
I have not made statistics. My subjective impression from reading programs of others is that there are many guards, and only few if-then-elses. If you are one of the if-users, then hi, I'm the other one! ;-)