The || (or) Operator in Linq with C#

Question

I\'m using linq to filter a selection of MessageItems. The method I\'ve written accepts a bunch of parameters that might be null. If they are null, the criteria for the file

Answer 1

You are correct that the second conditional shouldn't get evaluated as you are using the short-circuit comparitors (see What is the best practice concerning C# short-circuit evaluation?), however I'd suspect that the Linq might try to optimise your query before executing it and in doing so might change the execution order.

Wrapping the whole thing in brackets also, for me, makes for a clearer statement as the whole 'where' condition is contained within the parenthases.