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Short but honestly good advise to rather pull boolean checks apart and re-group them as they make sense in the context of the given situation you're checking for.

I started doing this when building an alert-check system for the company I'm working for right now, and it really helps organize what is a pre-condition, what a syntactical requirement, etc etc.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well it actually depends.

Does it make the code more readable? Like you have several if statements using the same things (and/or else if)? Yeah then it's probably good.

If you have an if (work.lengt() == 0 && stacked_work.length() == 0) and that's it, probably not. Depending of whats happining then of course.

Be creative guys! But also dont be too creative :-) Think about the poor coder doing something with all that in a year or two, let's make his life less miserable (It's probably you, too).

[–] overcast5348@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"it actually depends"

Yes, it depends. But in this scenario we're not discussing if statements with one or two conditions. We're exclusively discussing multiple complicated conditions. :)

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Well thei it is probably almost always good to clear things up :-) !