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Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
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Frank J. Lhota wrote:

> The situation is quite similar in C/C++; if you use the siumpler & and |
> operators, they do not short-circuit. In either C/C++ or Ada, experienced
> programmers know what needs to be done in order to get short-circuiting.


In C/C++ "everyone" knows that & and | are for bit twiddling and && and ||
are for combining logical expressions.

But get away from C/C++ for a moment. In pure Ada terms, isn't it less safe
for the defaults to be "and" and "or" instead of "and then" and "or else"?