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# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 3/23/2004 2:50 PM Lorenzo Barbieri

I use them much more than And and Or...

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 3/23/2004 3:09 PM Adam

I only programmed in VB.NET for about 2 months on a consulting gig, but I used AndAlso and OrElse almost exclusively.

for instance:
If Not myString Is Nothing AndAlso myString.Trim().Length > 0 Then

It simply has to be used so frequently that I pretty much quit using And and Or.

But I'm back to C# now, so I'm not really relevant :)

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 3/23/2004 3:15 PM Sean Chase MCSD.NET

This is one of the reasons I don't like VB.NET. They changed the language around enough from VB6, they should have just made AND and OR short-circuit by default. The extra keywords I understand are for backwards compatibility, but there's enough of that broken anyway.

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 3/23/2004 4:04 PM Brian Desmond

I use the everday - don't use straight and/or much at all.

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 3/23/2004 5:07 PM Paul Vick

Check out http://www.panopticoncentral.net/PermaLink.aspx/b8439510-534a-4127-9995-ccde06b82d6a if you want a more detailed discussion of what happened in regards to these operators...

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 3/23/2004 6:23 PM Xander Sherry

Always. I can't recall the last time that I used And/Or. It's been several months, at least.

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 3/23/2004 7:59 PM Darren Neimke

Ditto... I short-circuit 100% of the time :) .

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 3/24/2004 5:15 AM Markus The

Coming from a VB/C++ background, I now use both C# and VB.NET regularly. I am used to C++/C# short-circuiting, but I'm also completely used to the fact that VB *doesn't*. Having always worked in both languages, I have trained myself to use nested If's in VB whenever I want short-circuiting. Consequently, I now find myself forgetting the new AndAlso/OrElse - so no, I don't use them a lot. But because I think they are slightly confusing (how is a novice supposed to remember the difference? Semantically, AND is equal to ANDALSO, isn't it?) I'll stick to that. In C#/C++ that's not a problem: since there is only one option, there's no confusion.

And yes, I think they should have abolished the old AND and OR in favor of the new ones. We had to convert to .NET anyway, so we could have hunted down these constructions at the same time.

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 4/8/2004 9:57 PM Jamison Roberts

I've never written a single line of code in VB.Net, so needless to say I've never even heard of AndAlso/OrElse. If they behave the same way && and || does in C#, then i'd be using them exclusively should I actually be working in VB.Net.

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 4/1/2005 12:25 PM Dan Crowdus

I use AndAlso and OrElse exclusively. Can anyone think of a legitimate reason when you WOULDN'T want to short circuit?

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 4/1/2005 12:29 PM Scott Mitchell

Dan, you might not want short-circuiting if the expressions in the If statement cause side-effects. It's not very lucid programming, but some folks do it. If you all of a sudden switch from not short-circuiting to short-circuiting, such programs will break. That's why VB.NET - which was originally going to make And and Or short-circuiting - added AndAlso and OrElse.

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 12/27/2005 5:48 PM Don

Interesting discussion, I was just wondering about this myself. I believe the AND and OR can also be used as bitwise operators - so I am guessing that is the reason for MS not making them short-circuiting.

# re: Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse? 12/28/2005 2:45 PM Robz

I use short circuiting exclusively, except when I (well) forget to. :)

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