if statements with conditions that are always false have the effect of making blocks of code non-functional. if statements with conditions that are always true are completely redundant, and make the code less readable.

There are three possible causes for the presence of such code:

In any of these cases, unconditional if statements should be removed.

Noncompliant Code Example

  if (true) {
    doSomething
  }
  // ...
  if (false) {
    doSomethingElse
  }

Compliant Solution

  doSomething
  // ...

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