I've definitely spent a good while in the past trying to decipher the intent of someone who used &&alwaysFalseExpression - Is it a bug? Am I overlooking some su

I've definitely spent a good while in the past trying to decipher the intent of someone who used &&alwaysFalseExpression - Is it a bug? Am I overlooking some subtle side-effect somewhere? If they just wanted to turn the code off, they would have just commented it out...right?