[tmql-wg] Boolean Expressions (was: Re: Comments against TMQL draft 2006-02-22)

[Lars Heuer]

Hi Robert,

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>> 4.13 Boolean Expressions
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[...]
>   & symmetric, non-short circuit AND
>   && does not exist in TMQL
>   | symmetric, non-short circuit OR
>   || asymetric, short-circuit OR (can be defined via if-then-else)

> This is the same in Java, which got it from C++ which got it from C.....

> I would not advise to switch & to short-circuit because this can
> dramatically undermine automatic optimization.

Ok. IMO the boolean expr. need some more explaining words. Someone
might get the impression that you mean with "non short-circuit", that
every operant has to be evaluated even if the first operant evaluates
to "false" in an ANDed expression. That is not meant (I hope ;)).

With not short-circuit you mean, that the processor might evaluate
the operants in a boolean expression in any order it likes. But once
the proc. gets something that can be interpreted as false it can work
with the "false"-value (in an AND expression).

Best regards,
Lars
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