Transcript handling of OR and AND expressions
Jim Lyons
jimlyons at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 26 07:16:36 EST 2004
The docs don't say AFAIK, but I always wondered, so just now I tested
this. It's a good thing to know about sometimes.
If the engine is working on a statement like:
if switchA or switchB then doSomething
and switchA evaluates to true, then switchB is not evaluated; this can
be important if switchB is an expression that has side effects, or if
it contains an expression that wouldn't be valid if switchA is true.
For example,
if x1= x2 or (y1-y2)/(x1-x2)=z then doSomething
Similarly, if you have:
if switchA and switchB then doSomething
and switchA evaluates to false, then switchB will not be evaluated.
Hope this is helpful to someone.
Jim Lyons
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