this is not openbsd specific, but i wanted to ask people who really understand
the inner workings of programming languages.
suppose that you have 2 conditions A and B where B take a lot of effort to
determine (eg looking for a string match in a huge file).
either A or B needs to be true before you can execute 'this'.
the 2 if statements below are equivalent i think:
if A or B:
do this
if A:
do this
elseif B:
do this
now, do they work the same way?
in the second if A is true we don't need to go looking for B (the more
laborious one).
in the first, do both A and B get evaluated or does A get evaluated first
(because it is first in sequence) and if it is true, no evaluation of B takes
place?
do all programming and shell languages handle this the same way?
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