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Re: Short-circuit warning

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at ya?oo.com> May 20, 2008
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Well, you /are/ making up silly examples. Short circuiting is not intuitive to
people new to programming.

Not everyone new to programming will have taken a class on it.

Even reading the manual short-circuiting may not appear very clear to people who
are new to boolean algebra. The least-surprise assumption is that both conditions
are tested and then a decision is made. We only think differently because we're
used to it.

Now, short-circuiting is very useful. I still suggest "with/without strict" for
the short-circuit warning and for the unused local vars warning.


--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.