Re: short-circuit control forms

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message news:<3B312260.728686B5@boeing.com>...
> If not, you do not have software engineers. You have coders who are
> wasting their time and the company's money on ignorant FUD, and
> introducing a new source of error into working software. At best you
> should fire them and replace them with software engineers; at worst you
> should require them to adhere to your company standard unless they have
> justification for deviating.


The above itself is FUD in this case.

It is quite obvious that in some cases short circuiting is critical
for efficiency without needing detailed measurements. For example, 
when searching in a binary tree, it can make the difference between
O(logN) and O(N) behavior in extreme cases (well in recursion cases
it can of course make the difference between finite and infinite
execution time in a non-lazy language).