What about this approach?
if (true ^ clazz.isInterface()){
}
:-)
Bartek
2010/11/24 Alasdair Nottingham <[email protected]>:
> I find !!! is obviously odd where !!!!! and !!!!!!! are not. I could
> go for == false, but I've always thought that makes it look as if you
> don't realize Java has a boolean data type. I also expect it is more
> byte code.
>
> On 24 November 2010 14:31, David Bosschaert <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Ok - so at least no magic stuff happening that I wasn't aware of :)
>>
>> One could argue that !!!!! is even more visible or !!!!!!! or !!!!!!!!
>> - hold on? did I forget one '!' ? ;)
>> If you're going for explicit, Stuart's suggestion of == false is
>> probably a little safer...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 24 November 2010 14:10, Timothy Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> You'll find quite a few of these littered around the Aries codebase. It's a
>>> bad habit I picked up from Alasdair ;)
>>>
>>> I actually like it, it's nearly as concise as !, but much easier to spot
>>> and obviously different from !!!! or !!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: Why !!! in "if(!!!clazz.isInterface())" ?
>>>> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:01:37 +0000
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> It is equivalent to if(!clazz.isInterface()), but in my view is more
>>>> visible. The compiler even optimises it to a single negation.
>>>>
>>>> I find it really helps as I often mis a single ! when reading code.
>>>>
>>>> Alasdair
>>>>
>>>> On 24 Nov 2010, at 13:18, David Bosschaert wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Hi all,
>>>> >
>>>> > While looking around in some of the Aries codebase I found the
>>>> > following line of code [1]:
>>>> >
>>>> > if(!!!clazz.isInterface()) { //...
>>>> >
>>>> > Isn't this equivalent to if(!clazz.isInterface()) ? Or is there some
>>>> > special magic happening here that I haven't seen before?
>>>> >
>>>> > Just curious...
>>>> >
>>>> > Cheers,
>>>> >
>>>> > David
>>>> >
>>>> > [1]
>>>> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/aries/trunk/proxy/proxy-impl/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/proxy/impl/AsmProxyManager.java
>>>
>>
>
>
>
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> Alasdair Nottingham
> [email protected]
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