Re: a simple Java question
Re: a simple Java question
- Subject: Re: a simple Java question
- From: David Avendasora <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:34:55 -0500
Isn't it crazy how your brain sticks with trying to solve a difficult question when, in fact, the question is completely irrelevant?
Happens to me all the time. See just about all of my posts to the list. :-)
Dave
On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> duh!!!
>
> as soon as I read the response I realized my error.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ted
>
>
> --- On Tue, 1/4/11, Farrukh Ijaz <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> From: Farrukh Ijaz <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: a simple Java question
>> To: "Theodore Petrosky" <email@hidden>
>> Cc: email@hidden
>> Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 7:01 AM
>> Hi Ted,
>>
>> You should use only estimates().
>>
>> if(estimates()) {
>> // your code.
>> }
>>
>> jobIsClosed() || !jobIsClosed() will always return true as
>> at one given moment one of them will be true so anding it to
>> estimates() doesn't make sense as if estimates() is false
>> the evaluation will quit with false due to java precedence
>> which is left to right.
>>
>> Farrukh
>>
>> On 2011-01-04, at 2:51 PM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> if (estimates() && jobIsClosed() ||
>> !jobIsClosed()) {}
>>>
>>> I have these accessors (estimates()
>> jobIsClosed()). Do I need to parenthesize the second part of
>> this to be correct:
>>>
>>> if (estimates() && (jobIsClosed() ||
>> !jobIsClosed())) {}
>>>
>>>
>>> the first example is working as I intend, but I
>> originally had:
>>>
>>> if (estimates() && jobIsClosed() ||
>> estimates() && !jobIsClosed()) {}
>>>
>>>
>>> I was reading and searching on Java precedence and
>> couldn't find anything that specifically answered the
>> question. If I leave my code as the first example, will it
>> come back to bite me later? or is the second example more
>> correct?
>>>
>>> Ted
>>>
>>>
>>>
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