Re: mostly open issues

[Alexey Melnikov <mel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Showalter wrote:

> > 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?

I think yes. Why not?

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