[erlang-questions] Best practices -- conditional statements

[Ivan Uemlianin]

Certainly code/language<->thinking is a vicious/virtuous circle.  
Interesting point about get & set.


On 13/02/2019 16:04, empro2@REDACTED wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:45:49 +0000
> Ivan Uemlianin <ivan@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> example).  Nested cases really seem to enforce a
>> procedural view of what's going on.
> Is it not the other way around:
>
>> On 13/02/2019 13:35, Donald Steven wrote:
>>> My multilingual (using elements of Rust and c),
>>> heretical fantasy (with apologies) is something like:
> the procedural thinking causing the nesting and
> distracting from, even preventing the calculation of values?
>
>>> makePanPositionL(Notes, Mode, L),
> Why "make" it and not calculate pan_position(...)?
> Just as it is simply math:pi/0, not math:make_pi, get_pi,
> approximate_pi, .../0
>
> I am still "forgetting" the "naming conventions" of
> procedural code - and that includes the "hidden procedures"
> of object orientation. I even avoid the Smalltalk instead
> of Algol identifiers (especially as fonts tend to have
> short capitals (MlKkWf0Od) that are good for all-capital
> words in writing but do not really stand out enough for
> noInterWordSpaceWordSeparation).
>
> In the last few years more and more Smalltalk identifiers
> appeared in the docs (and the code), and though I am most
> certainly a worse programmer (in general, not Erlang alone)
> than anyone who has contributed to Erlang I would have
> s/maps:get/maps:value/
> (or maps:val, or in that context perhaps even maps:v)
> and probably s/maps:new/maps:empty/, to solely describe an
> empty map and avoiding the hint at the making of a new one.
>
> I am hoping the value description instead of action
> description helps me switch from procedural and OO to more
> functional thinking.
>
> The "branching" in the original post immediately made me
> think of branching mnemonics (BCS, BCC, ...)
>
> My! am I old :-)
>
> Michael
>

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