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Real quick question about the "break" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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I'm studying programming, and I don't agree woth my teacher. She basically said that if we use break (and continue too maybe) our test is an instant fail. She's reasoning is that it makes the code harder to read, and breaks the flow of it or something. (I didn't get her yapping tbh)

I can't understand why break would do anything of the sorts. I asked around and noone agreed with the teacher. So I came here. Is there a benefit to not using breaks or continues? And if you think she's wrong, please explain why, briefly even. We do enough down talking on almost all teachers she doesn't need more online.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yea, definitely just follow the arbitrary preference. It's actually pretty good practice for your professional life to learn to follow the occasional arbitrary bullshit... you'll need to obey a depressing amount of it in most large companies (especially a shitshow like Google).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

u make me not wanna be a software engineer with this talk..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

You either learn to work within a system or you build your own system. Guess where the money is.

At the end of the day, following your own coding preferences isn't the fun part of the job. The fun part of the job is looking back and saying "hey, I did that."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oh, don't worry, every other job has to deal with the same bullshit or worse and we get to have fun solving problems.