Objective-c coding conventions

Question

I'm seeking for best practices and coding conventions, so have a question on this. Looked trough almost all of them, but couldn't find any answers. Example function:

- (int)getSomeNumber
{
    int result = 0;
    if (something) {
       result++;
    }
    return result;
}

Question is, is it better to write result++, or ++result. If someone knows some suggestions or answers why is it better to write in one way or the other it would be very great. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

It doesn't matter the slightest when used as a statement (note that it does matter when part of a larger expression), as long as you are consistent. Don't mix styles within one source file or project.

Well, even better in this specific example would be return something ? 1 : 0;. Some people even prefer return something;, but I don't because in my eyes it makes no sense to convert a Boolean into an integer.