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<CAE1XxDFnJFuhoXVTBF5X0qmpLPBDE=yJcbUZDQrhSKb83=w...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 07/17/2013
at 10:45 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>You need to keep two things in mind. Even very simple optimizers 1)
>break off evaluation with the outcome FALSE as soon as an AND
>component is found to be false, and 2) break off evaluation with the
>outcome true as soon as an OR component is found to be true.
That may be true for COBOL, but it's not true in general; some
languages require that all subexpressions be evaluated; some languages
provide short circuit boolean operators in addition to standard
boolean operators.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
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