*blink* That's neat.

[Hamish Lawson]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> I think that "orelse" gives a better feeling of proceeding
> from one test to another. The corresponding replacement for
> "and" is "andalso". I think that these names also give a hint
> of the short-circuiting nature of the operators...

Ada has 'or else' and 'and then' as short-circuit versions
of 'or' and 'and'.

Hamish Lawson



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