Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:
> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> 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
