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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: and then... (a curiosity)
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On Sep 5, 8:14 am, Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> wrote:

> By the way, C++ made the design mistake of allowing && and
> || to be overloaded, whereupon they lose their short-circuit
> behavior and become normal evaluate-both-operands functions.
> Just awful.

Hey, at least they haven't allowed the "if" and "while" keywords to be
overloaded.  Yet.  Maybe they'll find a way to overload the curly
braces too.

                                 -- Adam