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Re: mostly open issues



> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:05:54 -0800 (PST)
> From: Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> My personal take is that short-circuit evaluation is useful enough to
> warrant a MUST. But I'd rather have a statement saying scripts MUST
> NOT take advantage of short-circuit evaluation than one saying
> implementations MAY do it.

Okay, scripts can't currently take advantage of short-circuit
evaluation.

If an extension exists that makes it possible to use short-circuit
evaluation, could we have that extension change this assumption?

-- 
Tim Showalter <tjs+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>