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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <6625@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 22 Oct 89 03:03:45 GMT
References: <1989Oct20.175352.20598@utzoo.uucp> <14102@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <14102@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
> Gee, isn't it interesting that the only order dependent behaviour you
> are willing to trust are the "well-defined" && and || operators.

Short-circuit evaluation of logical operators is a well-researched subject.
In any language in which this can occur (such as C and ADA), the order of
evaluation is well-defined. These particular semantics are *not*, as you
imply, a quirk of the C language.
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