Switch boolean.... (reinventing if, unnecessarily)

[phil o]

At least, his casing is ok.

while (true) {
continue;
}

[kmoorevs]

Thanks for posting! After two weeks without a new thread, I was starting to think that we are all working on perfect code! BTW, the example is perfect for getting your LOC up! :laugh:

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[DJ van Wyk]

Someone needs to sit down with the guy and give him some 'help' to understand decent coding practices. Keep a hammer ready ...

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[Sander Rossel]

You aren't working with my previous employer, are you? :laugh:

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[Freak30]

I see a reason for the function but not for the switch statement. Except if you are paid by lines of code of course. :-D

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[Simon ORiordan from UK]

The advantage of a switch is that it bails as soon as a test passes, thus reducing conditional branching. Here you could use an if else.

[ScottM1]

Or take it out altogether as it's setting 2 Booleans.

[Lost User]

In that case it has the same advantage as the "if" would have; but if that is an important 'optimization', then you already have a bigger problem :)

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[mbb01]

The only reason I could think for writing or keeping the code this way would be if enabled became an enumerated type and had more than 2 states.

[Simon ORiordan from UK]

In my experience Microsoft is pretty much immune to optimisation. You can reduce branching by one or two orders of magnitude and the crappy performance just doesn't budge. :zzz:

[Daniel Pfeffer]

In that case - create it as an enumerated type, with two values. You may then expand the enumeration without rewriting the existing code.

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[Lost User]

Probably because it is a micro-optimization; you won't notice much difference if it merely saves you the toggeling of a boolean.

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[Simon ORiordan from UK]

Ha! It was actually an image processing filter mask which used pointer arithmetic. I invented something I called a Summation Threshold Filter which should have been ten times quicker than a Median filter. Let's just say that this was not apparent. :laugh:

[Scott Corbett]

Umm...that's not true. A switch will continue to fall through until you get to a break statement or the end of the switch (i.e. the default case.) On the other hand, if/else statements do bail as soon as the first passing conditional is found and the associated code block is executed.

Scott E. Corbett

[Member 9908362]

FirstControl.Enabled = !FirstControl.Enabled;
SecondControl.Enabled = !SecondControl.Enabled;

[Kirk 10389821]

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[Richard Deeming]

Scott Corbett wrote:

A switch will continue to fall through until you get to a break statement or the end of the switch (i.e. the default case.)

Not in C# - every case is required to have a terminating statement (break, goto, return or throw).

switch (C# Reference)[^]:

Unlike C++, C# does not allow execution to continue from one switch section to the next. ... C# requires the end of switch sections, including the final one, to be unreachable. That is, unlike some other languages, your code may not fall through into the next switch section.

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[Jeremy Falcon]

Totally agree.

Jeremy Falcon

[Basketcase Software]

Couldn't resist:

void EnableFromValue(bool enabled)
{
FirstControl.Enabled = enabled;
SecondControl.Enabled = enabled;
...
}

[ttennebb]

I believe a switch is just a calculated jump statement. It doesn't work it's way through all the previous possibilities. Yes. Once calculated, the program goes to the break statement then jumps out appropriately. Switch statements are quite fast. In this case, I don't see advantage either way as an if statement is very simple too.