[mercury-users] Preferred coding style for switches

[Robert Ernst Johann JESCHOFNIK]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Ralph Becket wrote:


> I've just rewritten several predicates from the first style (here N = M = 4
> and not all `bar's need be considered for some `foo's) and, while there is
> less verbiage on the screen thanks to the reduced number of clause heads,
> I'm not convinced that it's any clearer - indeed, the latter style may be
> worse.

I think I prefer the first style (multiple clauses). Even if you do get
more heads, I get the feeling that it is actually a tad neater.
To be fair though, I have been very unconsistant in the past with regards
to this, though.
I will still do a switch in style 2 for things like dealing with a list,
but for a type with many constructors, I lean towards style 1. If
anything, style 1 saves you one level of indentation. ;)

So, in summary - I think that for a type with more than, say, three
constructors the first style is `better'.



Rob
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