From: "Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Order of logical operations
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:06:59 GMT
Date: 2004-06-04T20:06:59+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: Um3wc.43236$3x.40166@attbi_s54
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:40:53 GMT, James Van Buskirk
<not_valid@comcast.net> wrote:
<snip>
> I am curious
> as to how useful short-circuiting logical operators are
> considered to be in languages such as Ada that have both
> short-circuiting and non-short-circuiting operators.
>
The short-circuit forms in Ada are considered to be very useful for
structural analysis of code during safety certification (multiple
condition, multiple decision analysis). This is because sequentialization
of the conditions reduces the number of tests that would be necessary
compared to the simultaneous forms, where all combinations of conditions
would need to be exercised.
Aside from that, I personally don't have a strong feeling about the
relative merits, excepting some potential performance gains.
- Ed
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2004-06-04 18:40 ` Order of logical operations James Van Buskirk
2004-06-04 20:06 ` Ed Falis [this message]
2004-06-04 21:09 ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-07 17:00 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-07 17:36 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-04 21:37 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-05 10:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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