order of test

[Michael Hudson]

Andrew McNamara <andrewm at object-craft.com.au> writes:

> >can we be sure of the order of a test expression ?
> >i mean that
> >t=["one","two"]
> >x=10
> >if x<2 and t[x]=="oups":
> >
> >will never throw an exception if t[2] will be tested before x<2
> 
> It's called lazy evaluation, 

No it's not!  Lazy evaluation is more like Haskell...

> and python shares this trait with C.

This much is true.

Cheers,
M.

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