Re: Larkin, Power BASIC cannot be THAT good:

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:18:43 -0700 (PDT), Michael <mrdarrett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 11, 10:48?am, Rich Grise <richgr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:56:10 -0700, Michael wrote:
On Jun 10, 8:07?pm, AZ Nomad <aznoma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I also never use constants like 25480. ?24*60*60 is far more readable
and less prone to error. ?It doesn't take a pico second more to
execute as the calculation is done at compile time, not run time.
Even with an interpreted language, it is only parsed once; ?if the
language system isn't shit, the calculated value will be saved in the
saved tokenized code.

Funny. ?I would use the 25480, and put the 24*60*60 in a comment.

Then again, I don't need to write high-performance code.

I hope not! I define the constant, then use the label. That way,
if it changes, you don't have to track down every instance to
change the hard numbers.

Cheers!
Rich


Like in a #define?

Funny thing is, 24x60x60 = 86,400, actually...

Not likely that 60 seconds in a minute, or 60 minutes in an hour,
would change... unless... the client moves from a 24-hour-workday to,
say, an 8-hour work day?

No, the point is to remove an opportunity for programmer error.
Let the compiler do the math.
.

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