From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [Q] expression evaluation order
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 17:05:12 -0700
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Kenneth Loafman wrote:

> As early as 1978 I knew that && was short circuiting, but I've run
> across a
> couple of compilers that did not short circuit the || operation, i.e.
> A||B
> could be evaluated in either order.

These compilers didn't even conform to traditional C, then.

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