short-circuiting any/all ?

Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmichel at sequans.com
Tue Mar 23 06:55:16 EDT 2010


kj wrote:
> Arguably, Knuth's "premature optimization is the root of all evil"
> applies even to readability (e.g. "what's the point of making code
> optimally readable if one is going to change it completely next
> day?") 
The guy who will change it will have to read it. The only waste would be 
if the code would never be read again.
>  If there were the equivalent of a profiler for code clutter,
> I guess I could relax my readability standards a bit...
>
> ~K
>   
Don't relax, just keep up :o)

JM



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