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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Shortcut Booleans
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 01:51:30 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 13:35:12 +0200, David Brown wrote:

> In general, it would be inconvenient if you did not know whether "a @ b"
> was going to evaluate "b", including all function calls and
> side-effects.

Ada has “and then” and “or else”, so that you can specifically request 
shortcut evaluation when program correctness depends on it, and leave it 
up to the implementation otherwise.

This principle could be extended to other situations ...