Transcript handling of OR and AND expressions

[Ray G. Miller]

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>From: Dan Shafer <revdan at danshafer.com>
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>This is, relatively speaking at least, how all of the major programming 
>languages work. There's even a name for it. I think it might be called 
>something like "lazy" Boolean evaluation.
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>In any case, while Jim is right that this can be an issue if you use 
>expressions with side effects, the professional coders I've discussed 
>this with -- and there haven't been that many -- have essentially said, 
>"Don't include expressions in Boolean logic statements if thos 
>expressions have side effects. Rather, evaluate the expressions outside 
>the Boolean logic statement."
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In other words:

Cleanliness is next to buglessness.

Ray


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