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Subject: Re: conditional expression evaluation question
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Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 07:34:42 EST
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C guarantees that a conditional expression will NOT be fully
evaluated if the result of the expression is known after a
partial evaluation. You will have to do some restructuring
of your code if you were counting on full evaluation of a
conditional expression (as Pascal does).