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I sense an ex-"C" developer :o)

Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:

> "Dillan Fernando" <dillan@geocities.com> writes:
>
> > public boolean dummy()
> > {    for(a=0;a<x;a++)
> >     {    if (a==b) return true
> >     }
> > return false;
> > }
>
> Procedural programmers will balk at it and mumble something about
> "single exit point": to please them, rewrite it like this:
>
> public boolean dummy() {
>   boolean retVal = false;
>   loop: for (int a = 0; a < x; a++) {
>     if (a == b) {
>       retVal = true;
>       break loop;
>     }
>   }
>   return retVal;
> }
>
> Note: The "loop" label here is redundant, and only there for
> readability purposes.
>
> (I assume your sample code was just an illiustration: The method below
> is a much faster version:
>
>  public void dummy() {
>    return ((b >= 0) && (b < x));
>  }
>
> )