Discussion on: Open Discussion: What Tips Do You Have For Writing Clean Code?

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

1. Don't be lazy about typing. Abbreviations harm readability.
2. Don't encode data in your control flow. switch/case is evil.
3. Don't implement what you need right now. Think in abstracts.

[mephi]

I don't get the problem with switch case. Can you provide an example?

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

switch/case is often abused to express data that should be a map as control flow instead. Then people wonder why their code is so hard to extend.

[mephi]

Ok... but if I don't use Python, I can't put everything in a map.

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

Yes, you can? What programming language doesn't support maps these days?