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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Switch is good if you only need to compare equals when selecting a value.
    Although some languages make it way more powerful, like python match.
    but I generally dislike python despite of this, and I generally dislike switch because the syntax and formatting is just too unlike the rest of the languages.

    Generally I prefer the clear brevity of:

    var foo=
        x>100 ? bar :
        x>50 ? baz :
        x>10 ? qux :
        quux;
    

    Over

    var foo;
    if(x>100) {
        foo=bar;
    } else if(x>50) {
        foo=baz;
    } else if(x>10) {
        foo=qux;
    } else {
        foo=quux;
    }
    

    Which doesn’t really get any better if you remove the optional (but recommended) braces.
    Heck, I even prefer ternary over some variations of switch for equals conditionals, like the one in Java:

    var foo;
    switch(x) {
    case 100:
        foo=bar;
        break;
    case 50:
        foo=baz;
        break;
    case 10:
        foo=qux;
        break;
    default:
        foo=quux;
    }
    

    But some languages do switch better than others (like python as previously mentioned), so there are certainly cases where that’d probably be preferable even to me.








  • The first time I applied for a loan, I didn’t have a credit card yet. And they were like:

    How can we know you’re responsible with money?

    Because I haven’t needed credit in the past and I’m still alive, idk? Having enough liquidity to not need credit would seem to suggest I’m good with money.

    But maybe your parents are paying for everything

    Ok? How does using a credit card change that?