Chris Cason wrote:

> 
> It's a language thing. Some languages use short-circuit evaluation, and
> some don't (e.g. certainly standard pascal, and probably some versions of
> basic at the very least). So a pascal user might say the same thing as you
> if we changed it to use short-circuit evals.

Yes, I know that it varies from language to language.. but AFAIK modern 
languages tend to short-circuit evaluation - at least Oberon uses it ;)

> 
> Apart from that above I'm not commenting on whether or not it will be
> changed, I'm simply pointing out that it's not as illogical as you seem to
> think.

I never claimed that short-circuit evaluation is more logical - I think at 
first sight the current implemenation is more logical. But all the same I 
believe that there would be an advantage of changing it.

- Micha

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