is evaluation order defined, and evaluation of conditionals

[Dr. Hawkins]

On Monday, June 25, 2012, Jerry Jensen wrote:

>
> This behavior is guaranteed in the C language, but I don't know about
> guarantees in LiveCode. In C, similarly if "or" is used instead of "and",
> if the first part evaluates to "true", the second is NOT called. Again, I
> dunno about LiveCode. Exercise left to the reader (or somebody who knows!)


wow.  It's guaranteed to not be called?

OK, I retract my guess.

Then again, I guess that comes to the different purposes of C and modern
Fortran (I'm not sure what I said applies to F90; maybe F95 & later).
 Modern Fortan is designed for massive parallelism for math; offering to do
things in order would be counterproductive).


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