[Carpet] [Carpet-darcs] CarpetLib: Replace "!" by "not"

[Erik Schnetter]

On Sep 6, 2006, at 08:04:22, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:

>>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Carpet-Repository wrote:
>>>> The Carpet repository at ~darcs/carpet received a new patch:
>>>>
>>>>   CarpetLib: Replace "!" by "not"
>>>>
>>>> This patch was recorded by Erik Schnetter  
>>>> <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu> at
>>>> 2006-09-04 02:02:13.
>
> I asked:
>>> I'm curious: why are you making this replacement?
>
>> To try and make Carpet's coding style consistent.
>
> Sorry, perhaps I should have phrased my question more explicitly.
> What I mean to ask was/is:  I'm curious, what do you see as the
> benefits of using "not" instead of "!" in C++ code?  I've never run
> across such a coding-style guideline before...

I'm partly speechless...  this question from a person who introduced  
the "then" keyword to C++?

I prefer "and" and "or" because I think they look nicer than "&&" and  
"||".  If pressed for a reason, I would say that these operators cut  
short, and hence using a keyword instead of an operator servers to  
clarify this difference visually.

I also don't call it a guideline.  If you modify or add to a piece of  
existing code, then you should use the same style as is already  
there; if you write something new, you can decide the style which you  
use.

-erik

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