REORDER: Switch/Case & User Input Prompts

[Nige_S]

@_jims

Not often, but I've occasionally rearranged:

• any conditions placing the condition most likely to be true at the top.
• all conditions placing the condition most likely to be false at the top.

It might help readability, but does it have any difference come execution? I seem to remember @peternlewis saying that all conditions were evaluated simultaneously and that there was no short-circuiting.

Ah, found it (or rather another reference to the same, since this was before my time):

@peternlewis

Some languages short circuit, some evaluate every condition always, some evaluate left to right, some evaluate in any order.

In Keyboard Maestro’s case, all conditions are evaluated asynchronously, simultaneously. Any condition that returns true for an “any” or false for an “all” condition will result in the condition completing with a result.

So it seems to be a lot of work for little actual return.