OpenEuphoria

Re: Short-circuit warning

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at co?g?r.com> May 20, 2008
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Jason Gade wrote:
> 
> 
> I think it was a valid warning when short-circuiting was new to Euphoria. I
> guess the question is whether short-circuiting is expected behavior by people
> new or relatively new to programming?
> 
> Personally, I say do away with it and make it very clear in the docs that that
> is how things work.
> 

Short circuiting should be explained in the manual and it should be taught in
any elementary programming course. I do not think that Euphoria should consider
everyone a newbie or a dummy. It's a programming language. There are some things
you should know when programming. Short circuiting is one of those, IMHO. I've
not seen any language (I'm sure that it may exist) that has given a warning about
short circuiting. That's almost as bad as:

Warning: if statement may branch if it's condition is true

Um, we know that  To me the short-circuit warnings galore just mask a real
warning. Makes me want to turn off warnings, but I know that would be bad.

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com