OpenEuphoria

Re: Short-circuit warning

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at big?o?d.com> May 20, 2008
• 661 views

Andy Drummond wrote:
> 
> When I first used Euphoria the docs DID describe the short-circuiting process.
> It was very clear, and made coding easier with things like:
> }}}
<eucode>
>     if atom(res) or length(res)=0 or res[1]='+' then
>         do something
>     end if
> </eucode>
{{{

> To do that with three nested if statements would be silly.

By the way, it used to be that short ciruiting was significantly slower than
coding multiple IFs. I don't know if that situation has changed or not.


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