How to split up complex conditions and keep short circuit evaluation?

Question

Sometimes conditions can become quite complex, so for readability I usually split them up and give each component a meaningful name. This defeats short-circuit evaluation ho

Answer 1

You can use early returns (from a method) to achieve the same effect:

[Some fixes applied]

  public static boolean areArgsOk(String[] args) {
     if(args == null)
        return false;

     if(args.length != 2)
        return false;

     if(args[0].equals(args[1]))
        return false;

     return true;
  }

  public static void main2(String[] args) {

        boolean b = areArgsOk(args);
        if(b)
           System.out.println("Args are ok");
  }