order of test

Andrew McNamara andrewm at object-craft.com.au
Tue Jul 30 00:35:20 EDT 2002


>> It's called lazy evaluation, 
>
>No it's not!  Lazy evaluation is more like Haskell...

Of course, you are right. That's what I get for rushing. "Lazy evaluation"
implies an expression is not evaluated until it is needed to evaluate
another expression.

As several people have pointed out, I meant "short circuit evaluation".

>> and python shares this trait with C.
>
>This much is true.

Whew. ;-)

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