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Short-circuit evaluation

Short-circuit evaluation, minimal evaluation, or McCarthy evaluation (after John McCarthy) is the semantics of some Boolean operators in some programming languages in which the second argument is executed or evaluated only if the first argument does not suffice to determine the value of the expression: when the first argument of the AND function…

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Short-circuit evaluation

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related to Definition · 5
Short-circuit evaluation → Boolean, For, In, The, This
related to Precedence · 4
Short-circuit evaluation → AlthoughANDtakes, An, POSIX, The

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