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What idiom do you use? I strongly prefer using "or" myself, but there is nothing wrong with using || as long as you get the parens straight. Besides, the 'debugging hell' tends to teach a very important lesson on the importance of precedence. :)

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Scratching my head... by virtualsue (Vicar) on May 02, 2001 at 01:55 UTC
I not only prefer "or", I have gone as far as coercing coworkers to use it as well, for the simple reason that "or" always works as expected in this type of statement. I'm a strong believer in Defensive Programming, and avoiding "debugging hell" at all costs. I honestly don't think that the lesson in this case is worth the potential time waste. This is only my opinion, I am definitely not telling anyone else here what to do.	[reply]

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by virtualsue (Vicar) on May 02, 2001 at 01:55 UTC

I not only prefer "or", I have gone as far as coercing coworkers to use it as well, for the simple reason that "or" always works as expected in this type of statement. I'm a strong believer in Defensive Programming, and avoiding "debugging hell" at all costs. I honestly don't think that the lesson in this case is worth the potential time waste. This is only my opinion, I am definitely not telling anyone else here what to do.

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