Mad Software

I just posted an article over at CodeProject.com about what I call a boolean switch or switch flags (as the library I wrote is called). I've thought a lot about it over the years and implemented in a couple ways. It reduces the complexity of nested if statements. Basically, it allows for code like this:

switch_flags_2(a > b, c != d)
{
case flags_2(T,T):
    // only execute when "a > b" and "c != d"
    break;
case flags_2(F,X):
    // execute when "a > b" is false
    break;
}

Labels: C, C++, programming