RE: short-circuit control forms

["Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>]

-----Original Message-----
From: James A. Krzyzanowski [mailto:James_A_Krzyzanowski@raytheon.com]

> Our software engineers believe that using short-circuit control forms
> will make our software more efficient (speed-wise).  So, they have been
> replacing every "and" with "and then" and every "or" with "or else".

I've heard this before, as well.  And it makes sense, unless there is
some problem or inefficiency with generating the underlying branch
statements.

It seems to me that the "and" and "or" should have been implemented
in the short circuit form to begin with, instead of requiring 
"and then" and "or else".  As soon as one of the conditions is FALSE
for "and" or TRUE for "or", there is no need to check the remaining
arguments.

Frank Beard