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Best style practice: avoid negation in conditionals?
After having worked for years with tons of C and C++ code where if(x) or if(!x) was used to test if a pointer or integer x was valid or not, I got used to this idiom and don't see a huge difference to ...
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Should I use unnecessary function for readability sake
Possibly yes, but in this case no —- because your extra functions don’t make your code more readable.
const renderNavBar = (size ==='small') ? renderMobileNavBar : renderDesktopNavBar;
/* whatever*/
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Best style practice: avoid negation in conditionals?
Express the intent
The driving principe should be to express intentions, i.e. what you really mean to achieve. This makes the code self-explanatory.
Applying this principe to integer comparisons with ...
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Should I use unnecessary function for readability sake
We do a lot of things in programming just for the sake of readability - like giving variables meaningful names (instead of just naming them a, b, c, d, ...).
Or specificially conditionals - there is a ...
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