What is the difference between 0 = value1

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What is the difference between 0 = value1

Postby TJ » 26 Sep 2008

What is the difference between

if 0 = value1 then...

and

if value1 = 0 then...



I see some people do it the first method. I wonder if there is any advantages?

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nothing

Postby Huoliuhi » 29 Sep 2008

I'm going to bump the tread up.

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Postby Marina Pashkova » 08 Oct 2008

Hi TJ,

There's no difference between the two variants of code whatsoever.

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Postby RWDickinson » 09 Dec 2008

TJ: there is no difference in the result; the reason some programmers do this is that in some languages you can avoid some programmer errors by doing your comparisons this way.

In 'C' language it is a common error to code "if x = 0" (an assignment of value: assigns 0 and the 'if' will always be false) instead of the desired "if x==0" (a comparison). This error code will compile and execute but introduces a hard-to-find bug. However if you make the same equal-sign error by coding "if 0 = x" then the compiler will complain. Hope that was clear. I don't see an advantage in EL, unless you are used to looking at your comparisons in this format.

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Postby TJ » 09 Dec 2008

thanks for the explanation.
that makes sense.


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