Re: Do chained comparisons short-circuit?

2006-01-18 Thread Ph. Marek
On Thursday 19 January 2006 04:25, Luke Palmer wrote: > On 1/19/06, Joe Gottman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Suppose I have code that looks like this: > > > > my ($x, $y, $z) = (1, 2, 3); > > > > say "sorted backward" if ++$x > ++$y > ++$z; > > > > Will $z be incremente

Re: Do chained comparisons short-circuit?

2006-01-18 Thread Luke Palmer
On 1/19/06, Joe Gottman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Suppose I have code that looks like this: > > my ($x, $y, $z) = (1, 2, 3); > > say "sorted backward" if ++$x > ++$y > ++$z; > > > > Will $z be incremented even though the chained comparison is known to be > false after