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From: mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>
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Subject: and then... (a curiosity)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:06:49 -0700 (PDT)
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Dear.all,
today while I was writing in my favorite language
(PERL with C extensions, of course :-)))) I wondered why in Ada the
"shortcut and"  is "and then", while the simple "and" has not
a shortcut  behaviour.  My curiosity stems from the fact that
I am not able to envision any situation where the "non shortcut"
version would preferable, but I immagine that there was some
reason for this choice.  Do anyone have any hint?

Thank you in advance.