On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 at 19:31, Roland Puntaier via aur-general <aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Generally if-then-else tend to propagate and inflate the code. > The code base becomes larger and slower.
Sorry, I'm sincerely curious, in what programming language spawning a shell to run a command only to have that command blurt out a warning (and perhaps having to parse STDOUT and/or STDERR to catch that warning) is _faster_ than a simple branching condition on the length of a list? My 2 cents are that it would be a lot easier (and faster) for both A and B if neither of them allowed empty package lists. Heck, I'd even put that if-then-else anyways in my code just to avoid spawning a shell, or calling an external hook. -- Fanfurlio Just a linux sysadmin
