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In article <3aef3645_1@dnews>, John McGrath  [TeamB] <ng-
b@JPMcGrath.net> writes
>Here is an interesting little language question:
>
>Are the following two methods equivalent?

 Good lord, you would surely be the man who knows.......?
 What I THINK is.... functionally, they should do the same thing.

 However, in code produced -- unless the compiler is so immensely
 clever as to pick up that the second condition is exactly opposite
 to the first -- they will be different. They will work EXACTLY
 as you wrote.
>
>    String booleanString( boolean b ) {
>        String s;
>        if ( b ) {
>            s = "true";
>        } else {
>            s = "false";
>        }
>        return s;
>    }


  Approximately  b, JFalse(L1), "true",  =>#(s), Jmp(L2),
                 L1:,           "false", =>#(s),     L2:    .
>
>And:
>
>    String booleanString( boolean b ) {
>        String s;
>        if ( b ) s = "true";
>        if ( !b ) s = "false";
>        return s;
>    }

  Approximately b,       JFalse(L1), "true",  =>#(s);  L1: ,
                b, not,  JFalse(L2), "false", =>#(s),  L2:   .

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