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Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> When I was at Polytechnic first language was PL/1, second Pascal and
> therefore methodology was different. i.E. Don't rely on the execution
> order of boolean expressing.

This I also agree with, although I admit being used to the short circuit &&
forms in the C-like languages.

But my point is about having the source code be clearer when both operands are
required to be evaluated, especially when this is a possibility:

> They are not necessarily both executed with plain old OR and AND either.
> Plain old OR and AND leaves all options open to the optimizer: Out of
> order execution Common subexpression elimination or dead code elimination.


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