Github user viirya commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/19901#discussion_r155403171
  
    --- Diff: 
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/conditionalExpressions.scala
 ---
    @@ -180,13 +180,18 @@ case class CaseWhen(
       }
     
       override def doGenCode(ctx: CodegenContext, ev: ExprCode): ExprCode = {
    -    // This variable represents whether the first successful condition is 
met or not.
    -    // It is initialized to `false` and it is set to `true` when the first 
condition which
    -    // evaluates to `true` is met and therefore is not needed to go on 
anymore on the computation
    -    // of the following conditions.
    -    val conditionMet = ctx.freshName("caseWhenConditionMet")
    -    ctx.addMutableState(ctx.JAVA_BOOLEAN, ev.isNull)
    -    ctx.addMutableState(ctx.javaType(dataType), ev.value)
    +    // This variable holds the state of the result:
    +    // -1 means the condition is not met yet and the result is unknown.
    +    val NOT_MATCHED = -1
    +    // 0 means the condition is met and result is not null.
    +    val HAS_NONNULL = 0
    +    // 1 means the condition is met and result is null.
    +    val HAS_NULL = 1
    +    // It is initialized to `-1`, and if it's set to `1` or `0`, We won't 
go on anymore on the
    --- End diff --
    
    nit: since you define the constants above, why not use them in this comment?
    
    ```It is initialized to `NOT_MATCHED`, and if it's set to `HAS_NULL` or 
`HAS_NONNULL`...```


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