(no) fast boolean evaluation ? missing NOT

[Roel Schroeven]

Paul Boddie schreef:
> On 3 Aug, 11:45, Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nos... at mailbox.kun.nl> wrote:
>> Sorry, my question missed the essential "NOT",
>> here is an example, that behaves different in Delphi,
>> (so I guess Delphi is not a real language ;-)
> 
> Delphi is based on Pascal, and from what I can recall from my
> university textbook, there isn't any mandatory short-circuit
> evaluation in Pascal: it's an implementation-dependent feature.
> Consequently, an expression involving boolean operators in such
> languages may well evaluate each term (potentially causing side-
> effects) before determining the final result.

I even thought Pascal never uses short-circuit evaluation, and always 
evaluates all terms. I might be wrong about that though; it's been quite 
a long time since I've used Pascal.

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Roel Schroeven