Resetting Arrays

[Cephalopod]

The reason I preferred EE over public forums is there is no flaming, flaming doesn't really bother me but I cbf reading a thread of flaming every time I ask a question which might be considered basic but I didn't understand fully at the time of learning :P

I guess it just comes down to whether you care about parting with $15 a month or whatever it was for ee, that and how patient you are :P I'm impatient. People respond fast on ee because they want points

[suicidity]

I agree with previous statements about the structure of coding; I go for this order personally..

Optimization
Functionality
Readability / Least code

I always work to find better ways of doing something, usually smaller ways work better; But previously stated not always. So you have to conform to what you're working with and go from there.

[Cush]

So how do you know which should be used? (Long or short way)

I mean, with a very small program you cant see a difference.

[Cephalopod]

Time it, or use common sense.

These are two useless pieces of code but using them to demonstrate:

void Blah(int x)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
     Console.Print(x.ToString());
}
}

void Blah(int x)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
     if (i < 5)
         Console.Print(x.ToString());
}
}

Pretty clear the second takes longer.