Update PHI node example in README to use more idiomatic structure #88
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When using LLVM's PHI nodes, creating a local variable to store the result in each preceding branch defeats the purpose of using PHI nodes in the first place (or, at the very least, obscures their purpose). With the use of
local
in the example originally, the program could be trivially rewritten as:which sidesteps the need for a PHI node at all. I've rewritten the example to remove the unused
local
variable and to make the power of PHI nodes clearer.