Isn't it crazy how your brain sticks with trying to solve a difficult question 
when, in fact, the question is completely irrelevant?

Happens to me all the time. See just about all of my posts to the list. :-)

Dave

On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:

> duh!!!
> 
> as soon as I read the response I realized my error.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ted
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 1/4/11, Farrukh Ijaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> From: Farrukh Ijaz <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: a simple Java question
>> To: "Theodore Petrosky" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 7:01 AM
>> Hi Ted,
>> 
>> You should use only estimates().
>> 
>> if(estimates()) {
>>     // your code.
>> }
>> 
>> jobIsClosed() || !jobIsClosed() will always return true as
>> at one given moment one of them will be true so anding it to
>> estimates() doesn't make sense as if estimates() is false
>> the evaluation will quit with false due to java precedence
>> which is left to right.
>> 
>> Farrukh
>> 
>> On 2011-01-04, at 2:51 PM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> if (estimates() && jobIsClosed() ||
>> !jobIsClosed()) {}
>>> 
>>> I have these accessors (estimates() 
>> jobIsClosed()). Do I need to parenthesize the second part of
>> this to be correct:
>>> 
>>> if (estimates() && (jobIsClosed() ||
>> !jobIsClosed())) {}
>>> 
>>> 
>>> the first example is working as I intend, but I
>> originally had:
>>> 
>>> if (estimates() && jobIsClosed() ||
>> estimates() && !jobIsClosed()) {}
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I was reading and searching on Java precedence and
>> couldn't find anything that specifically answered the
>> question. If I leave my code as the first example, will it
>> come back to bite me later? or is the second example more
>> correct?
>>> 
>>> Ted
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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