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

A bit off topic but if you rand the same example in vb.net like this

dim someString as string
someString = MagicFunction()
if not string.IsNullOrEmpty(someString) and someString.Length > 3 then
    ' normal string, do whatever
else
    ' do someting else
end if

this would go bang on a null (nothing) string but in VB.Net you code it as follows do do the same in C#

dim someString as string
someString = MagicFunction()
if not string.IsNullOrEmpty(someString) andalso someString.Length > 3 then
    ' normal string, do whatever
else
    ' do someting else
end if

adding the andalso make it behave the same way, also it reads better. as someone who does both vb and c' development the second vb one show that the login is slighty different and therefor easyer to explain to someone that there is a differeance etc.

Drux