On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:51:43 +0000 (UTC), David Garamond wrote:

>> ...
> I too never know why Turbo Pascal included the Complete Boolean
> Evaluation compiler option in the first place. Probably someone know the
> story behind this?
>
> Virtually every language I'm using today use short-circuiting these days.

Even in Delphi 6 you'll find an option for this. Check
Project|Options|Compiler, and you'll see the checkbox for 'Complete boolean
eval".

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Aage J.