Ask HN: What's your simple but favourite coding trick?
When I started programming, 5-6 months into it, I was introduced to a very interesting trick/pattern by one of my mentors.
func(){
if() {
} else {
}
can be beautifully converted to
func(){
if() {
return;
}
// Write the else code here.
The reduced indentation gave a weird sense of relaxation. It was such a neat little trick.
What about you guys. Any common tricks which everyone can use. From your example, an even more concise way can be written using ternary operations in any C-style language:
int i = 10;
bool is_10 = (i === 10) ? TRUE : FALSE;