On Aug 21, 4:56 pm, "Michael Geary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We are still talking about short circuits? > > I think so. :-) Right. I was begining to mix a few different ideas. :-) My initial message first questioned the idea where paul parenthically stated the & operator may be used for his idiom. In general, I never think or program it as having short circuiting behavior. I never expect it to behave as such as well In addition, from an application standpoint, there is a difference too dependent on you wish to to use the final condition result. Like I showed in my initial message, whether it was & or |, all functions were called, however, the final result is different. There was no short circuit behavior for the & and | bitwise operators and I don't expect to be. > What language are you talking about? "if( a & b )" is perfectly good, > portable code in either C (assuming reasonable types for a and b) or > JavaScript. and that is one of the kickers, 'reasonable types" and I will add expected types. It serves no justice to try to consolidates 30 years of interpreters, pcode compilers and product development practice in one Google group message. :-) All I am saying is that to avoid such engineering concerns, it is good practice to use bit comparision method.. The difference is coding with 100% confidence vs 99% confidence in the expected assertions being made. Off the top of my hand, mike, a design problem may begins at your external interface points where there might type casting being done for you. Yes, data types are important. > No, but there is one standard they are all using: > > http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm Yes. I'm aware of it. We got an exploration project scheduled to see if we can use JavaScript as our server embedded language. Thanks Mike -- HLS
