Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to use &&
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:05:45
Message-Id: 20090104160533.GA7823@crud.crud.mn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to use && by Richard Freeman
1 Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> skribis:
2 > I'm not aware of any language that works this way, but potentially you
3 > could even have out-of-order boolean evaluation (ie echo "hello" && false
4 > does nothing) in a very well optimized language.
5
6 Pascal has no defined order of evaluation for booleans, or at least it
7 didn't a zillion years ago.