Value & parentheses when doing math

[Bob Sneidar]

The second one is more readable. The third is unnecessary. The first works just fine. It just depends on how readable you want to make your code for others. I always take the time to put values into their own variables so I can point at them in the debugger and see their current values in the stepper. So:

put item 4 of line x of tList into tValue
add tValue to tRunningTotal

seems to me to be more readable, at the expense of a little extra typing. 

Bob S


> On Apr 2, 2018, at 14:48 , Knapp Martin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a tab delimited list where item 4 is a number and I'm adding things up. What is considered best practice when doing this?
> 
> add item 4 of line x of tList to tRunningTotal
> or
> add (item 4 of line x of tList) to tRunningTotal
> or
> add value(item 4 of line x of tList) to tRunningTotal
> 
> Marty
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