On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, at 12:51 AM, Ken Dibble wrote: > It is my understanding that some languages do evaluate all elements of > the statement before attempting to resolve it, and will fail at > runtime even if the code compiles.
This is called short circuiting. C#, for example, will do it if you use the '&&' logical AND, but won't do it if you use '&'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-circuit_evaluation -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
