Chapter 1 : A Tutorial Introduction
“As a matter of style, it is advisable to format this construction as we have shown; if each if were indented past the previous else, a long sequence of decisions would march off the right side of the page. ”
这里说的是
The pattern
if (condition1) statement1 else if (condition2) statement2 ... ... else statementn 里面的statement的布局。
看中文版时理解错了,看英文版才明白过来。
Chapter 2 : Types,Operators and Expressions
“Names are made up of letters and digits; the first character must be a letter. The underscore ``_'' counts as a letter; it is sometimes useful for improving the readability of long variable names. Don't begin variable names with underscore, however, since library routines often use such names.”