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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
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In article <3C39C120.1060706@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> I can see only one *practical* benefit, which is that you can write
> an overloaded version for your own data types which then has the same
> semantics as the built-in version, i.e., both operands are always
> evaluated. I haven't seen multiple answers otherwise, except for dubious
> claims about optimization.

What is dubious about optimizing:

	if my_function (arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4) and not suppression_mode
        then

where suppression_mode is a boolean variable ?