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Larry Kilgallen wrote:

> What is dubious about optimizing:
> 	if my_function (arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4) and not suppression_mode
>         then
> where suppression_mode is a boolean variable ?


What is it you're asking me here? In this case Ada requires that
my_function is called, regardless of the value of suppression_mode,
so what optimization do you have in mind? Remember, "and" is
required to evaluate both operands. You seem to think that "and" is
allowed to short-circuit one of the operands.