(no) fast boolean evaluation ?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Ed Leafe a écrit :
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, I forgot to mention the language did not allow to have else & if
>> in the same statement. IOW :
>>
>> if some_condition then
>>    do_sometehing
>> else
>>    if some_other_condition then
>>      do_something_else
>>    else
>>      if yet_another_condition then
>>        do_yet_another_thing
>>      else
>>        if your_still_here then
>>           give_up('this language is definitively brain dead')
>>        end if
>>      end if
>>    end if
>> end if
> 
>     Usually that's because the language provides a switch/case statement 
> construct.

Err... You may have forgotten from lack of practice, but there are 
complex conditions that may not always be expressed using a switch/case...

> If it does and you try to write the above code, it isn't the 
> language that's brain-dead!  ;-)

Lats time I checked, my brain was still alive.