I don't like this… Is this cheating the language?

Question

I have seen something like the following a couple times... and I hate it. Is this basically \'cheating\' the language? Or.. would you consider this to be \'ok\' because the IsNu

Answer 1

That looks to me like a perfectly reasonable use of logical short-circuitting--if anything, it's cheating with the language. I've only recently come from VB6 which didn't ever short-circuit, and that really annoyed me.

One problem to watch out for is that you might need to test for Null again in that else clause, since--as written--you're winding up there with both Null strings and length-less-than-three strings.