Which one is better [modified]

[PIEBALDconsult]

What language is that?

[DaveAuld]

I don't see why you would want/need to check it is True just to set it to false. So i would go with the first option.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Maybe it involves a costly network or database transaction?

[Richard A Dalton]

They both suck. Isok seems to be handling two conditions. The one hidden in the comments, that could change it. And the less than 100. That's confusing. In any case You don't need an if. Isok = I < 100 Would work. Sorry for caps and formatting, I'm on a phone. Rd

[Khaniya]

yes you got it so what will you prefere?

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[DaveAuld]

Even if it does involve an expensive operation, with the code structure we can see, i still cannot see how it makes a difference. If the code before the 'if' checks the isOk to perform the operation then maybe, but if isOK is already true, and you need to set it back to false if i<100, then maybe the whole way the operation is being done need to be reviewed. If your logic requires for the the operation to continue until i > 100, then it doesn't matter what happens with isOK, or if it is true already. just set it back to false and get on with what you need to do. I am maybe not explaining very well what i'm trying to say, but i hope you catch my drift.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

At the moment I'm more concerened with the meaning of while(int i=0). Will it compile? Will it execute the loop?

[Electron Shepherd]

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

Will it compile? Will it execute the loop?

Yes. No.

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[AspDotNetDev]

At first, I thought the coding horror was the "while(int i = 0)" (or whatever it was), but I didn't understand why you posted two similar versions. Now that you changed it, I don't understand what the coding horror is at all.

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[elitig]

Maybe the coding horror is premature optimisation? Unless the programmer has determined that this is a bottleneck, the better one is the one that expresses the logic most clearly (the one without the extra test, for my money), not the one with the lowest "cost". And if the programmer has determined that this is a bottleneck, they can use the same tools to find out which is faster.