Re: Beginner Projects

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:32:11 -0400, Lew <lew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

. OTOH, this counts as "premature
optimization" in many cases.

It is simpler code, so I don't count it as optimisation. Optimisation
that gets you in trouble is verbose, harder-to-maintain code. I
figure every student should be familiar with odd/even idiom.

There is no shame is choosing the tersest, fastest code first time
out.


see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/modulus.html

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