Value & parentheses when doing math

[Tom Glod]

the 2nd one is the one most readable to me so thats the one i would use

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Knapp Martin 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
>
> IMO whatever is the easiest to write and read that gets the job done is
> the best option.
>
> The first example above seems simplest to me.
>
> The second one isn't bad, but the third one should be avoided unless you
> have something in the data that requires the overhead of adding a call to
> the value function.
>
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