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Subject: Re: Bizar Question for programmers: very strange behaviour of my engine

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 15:29:02 01/17/06

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On January 17, 2006 at 18:08:59, Dann Corbit wrote:

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>4 Unlike the bitwise binary & operator, the && operator guarantees left-to-right
>evaluation; there is a sequence point after the evaluation of the first operand.
>If the first operand compares equal to 0, the second operand is not evaluated.

Thanks, Dann.  I count on that with statements like

if (a && disaster_if_a_is_false)

Best
Dan H.



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