From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88858d66e427dbcb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-05 19:49:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!attbi_s01.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Steve" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <87f5a614.0311051528.30450c7a@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Short circuit boolean evaluation X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.211.58.135 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s01 1068090549 12.211.58.135 (Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:49:09 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:49:09 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:49:09 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2116 Date: 2003-11-06T03:49:09+00:00 List-Id: If you look in the history of this newsgroup on google, you'll find that this subject has already been discussed extensively. I consider it unimaginable to make such a fundamental change to a language in order to save a few keystrokes when more than a few billion lines of source code might be effected. Steve (The Duck) "svaa" wrote in message news:87f5a614.0311051528.30450c7a@posting.google.com... [snip] > > Anyhow, I think that even without backward compatibility, the advanges > of short circuit evaluation are worth. > > But if someone can't live with of full evaluation you could add the > operators "or always" and "and always", I'm sure they will be less > used than "or else" and "and then" ;-)