Re: short-circuit control forms (& 'long names are doom')

[Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey<NOSPAM>"@west.raytheon.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> "DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com> wrote in message news:<QGyY6.222270$p33.4459972@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>...
> 
> The GNAT standard is to use AND THEN/OR ELSE for all cases except
> when simple Boolean values are involved.
> 
> We never have a situation where both operands *must* be evaluated,
> since this would represent disgusting coding with side effects, so
> we do not have a rule that covers this case :-)


Welcome back Robert.  I like your answer to this.
I was wondering when someone was going to say something
about functions with side effects not being a good thing.
Unfortunately, in my current application that I inherited,
that are a ton of them but I would sure hate to have a
coding standard that encouraged them.

Jerry
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