Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@BRL.ARPA From: gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re : C Style Message-ID: <2684@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 19:25:39 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2684 Posted: Thu Oct 31 19:25:39 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 07:48:17 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 4 You don't have to check what X3J11 says; && and || were specifically designed to do "short-circuit" evaluation. I don't know what Dan was thinking of (Fortran or Pascal, perhaps; definitely not C).