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Re: unless statements

by htoug (Deacon)
on Feb 08, 2005 at 11:09 UTC ( [id://429005]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to unless statements

It is a matter of taste (and style), but I only use unless without the else-clause. If you have the else, then you could just as well use a normal if and get better readability - it's more like waht everyone is used to.

But in a standalone if (!(some_complicated_expression)) the use of unless lets you remove one pair of parenthesis and lets the poor smuck reading the code have one less thing to worry about.

I would rewrite your example as

$value=20; if ($divisor!=0){ #so long as the $divisor isn't equal to 0 $value=$value/$divisor; #go ahead and divide $value by $divisor } else { $divisor=1; #otherwise set $divisor to 1 }
Now the statement says the same as the comment (in your code it should have been #unless the $divisor isn't equal to 0 - 'so long' indicates a repetition IMHO).

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Re^2: unless statements
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 01, 2005 at 16:15 UTC
    Hello , well i think unless is a loop and things like : if ($divisor!=0){ doesn't work rather than using unless if will procedes the action for one time but unless will keep procedes the same things unless the statment goes wrong that's what i think

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