Question

I write a lot of methods looking a bit like this:

/* myVal must be between 10 and 90 */
int myVal = foo;
if(myVal < 10) { myVal = 10; }
else if (myVal > 90) { myVal = 90; }

Is there a more elegant way of doing it? Obviously you could easily write a method, but I wondered if any languages had a more natural way of setting a constraint, or whether there was something else I’m missing.

Language agnostic, because I’m interested in how different languages might deal with it.

Answer 1

In most programming languages, you could use something like

myVal = min(max(foo, 10), 90);

or simply write a clip() macro which does the same thing.