Boris Borcic borcis at geneva-link.ch
Tue Apr 16 02:42:30 EDT 2002

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Grant Edwards wrote:

> In article <3CBABA71.3040909 at geneva-link.ch>, Boris Borcic wrote:
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>>For the shortcut semantics, we'd like to have :
>>     a xor b
>>
>>behave exactly like :
>>     (not b and a) or (not a and b)
>>
> 
> I don't understand how that's a shortcut (assuming that means
> the same thing as short-circuit).  You have to evaluate both
> operands of an xor operator.


That's right, the shortcut is in confusing short-circuit semantics
with returning operands when possible. In any case, my question
was elsewhere as the renaming of the thread suggested.

Boris Borcic
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