1. Re: Short Circuiting
>Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:10:25 -0400
>From: Robert B Pilkington <bpilkington at JUNO.COM>
>Subject: Re: Short Circuiting
>
> if find("EOF", s) then
> ... [alpha]
> else
> [gamma]
> end if
>
>Although this would give the wrong results if s = "eeeEOF", as opposed to
>s = "EOFjkl", but given the context, seems pretty appropriate to me.
>Yeah, yeah, I know this is supposed to be an example of hard code that
>short-circuiting would make easier.... But....
if match("EOF", s) = 1 then --> assuming s is sequence 
It works, but I'd rather see the not-using-a-function (compare is NOT
seen as a function, after all it's a standard operator in most
languages; match IS seen as a function, in BASIC you use INSTR, in
Pascal you use Pos, in C you use strchr, in Perl you use index,
i.e. no language has find as an operator) version. (Btw yes I know
lots of languages.)
Btw it's not find...
>global function same(sequence s1, sequence s2)
> return not compare(s1, s2) -- if equal return 1, otherwise return 0.
>end function
I'd rather use objects in the arguments 
