On 1/27/13 12:39 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Musings about complex if statements on this Sunday morning....Lets say you have a complex if statement with 4 conditions that must all be true. Is there any advantage, other than personal preference/style, to: if cond1 and cond2 and cond3 and cond4 then..... or if cond1 then if cond2 then if cond3 then if cond4 then... In either case, as soon as a condition evaluates to false, none of the rest are evaluated, right?
Right, both examples are equivalent. In the single line version (example 1) the conditions are evaluated left to right, and as soon as one is false the rest are abandoned.
Parentheses indicate which conditions are part of a grouping but don't influence the direction of evaluation.
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