Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I miss most in both C and Java is the lispish ability to write >> expressions like: >> >> foo = bar() || baz() || qux();
> Are you sure that C doesn't guarenty short circuit evaluation? > I don't have my C reference handy, but my memory is that evaluation > will stop after the first function call that returns true in the > above expression. Yeah, but you can only find out the boolean result, not the actually returned value --- that is, foo will get 1 or 0. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend