[jboss-dev] Weird boolean expressions

[Jason T. Greene]

Yeah that drives me batty. Especially when someone breaks my beautiful 
k-map optimized expressions ;) Luckily that hasn't happened lately.

David M. Lloyd wrote:
> Every now and then I'll see a commit go by with code looking like this:
> 
>     if (some.methodCall().foo() == false)
> or
>     boolean something = Foo.bar() ? true : false
> 
> What is the point of these silly redundant expressions?  This is beyond 
> code style and into the realm of superstition or something.  We are all 
> professional programmers, and should have a thorough understanding of 
> boolean expressions at this point.  Java is the common language that we all 
> speak - I don't think we need to dumb it down to this degree.
> 
> Everyone has their own preferences when it comes to formatting, 
> arrangement, even some coding techniques or patterns, but this is a bit 
> silly, wouldn't you say?
> 
> - DML
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Jason T. Greene
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