[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] clean up tests in configure

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:51:53AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:20:06AM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > As I said I am for removing () and replacing them with {} that doesn't
> > invoke subshell and are more readable.
> > I am also agains -a/-o that are compleatly obfiscated. I would be
> > happy they to be removed from current configure.
> 
> I'm not sure if the readability thing gets us very far. I find -a and -o
> at least as easy to read as &&/|| (not to mention closer to natural
> languange, that might be better for non-programmers).

what natural language? english? they're not natural if english isn't
your native language, and on the other hand, && is _always_ natural
(it's the meaning of the & symbol) and || is natural to anyone who
knows standard (international) logic notation.

> Whereas I find that { and } make a text harder to read.

grouping symbols are needed in either case, so this argument is
irrelevant.

rich