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[John Posner]

On 2/5/2010 11:53 AM, Gerald Britton wrote:
>   Also, I'm contractually obligated to
>> admonish you not to "top post".
>
> Contract?

Joke. (I know it's hard to tell.)

>
>>
>> At any rate, I proposed the 3-line format specifically because it separates
>> the data values from the if-then-else machinery, making it easier (for me)
>> to read. But there was considerable resistance to spending so much vertical
>> space in the source code.
>
> Weird!  It's three lines and the original was four lines was it not>?

Yes, but most people (including you, right?) seemed to think that 
conditional expressions are best confined to a single line.

I proposed my 3-line alternative for expressions that *cannot* 
reasonably be confined to a single line.

-John