At 6/12/2003 08:08 PM (Thursday), Daniel Rail wrote:

>- Complete evaluation is sometimes convenient when one operand is a
> function with side effects that alter the execution of the program

This is poorly stated. By definition "side effects" do not alter the result
of the expression evaluation (what I think you refer to as "the execution
of the program") but they can nevertheless be important. If I wrote a UDF
which logs execution somewhere I think would want it called wherever I used it.