Shortcut evaluation. Consider you have:

if (a>b) and (c<d) then....

So, if b is not less than a then it is not necessary to check c < d.
Therefore, you immediately return false.

thanks,
yerman


At 05:36 PM 16/04/2003 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
> > I am using Firebird and I need to perform a query using shortcut at WHERE
> > statement.
> > Does any body know how to perform that ?
>
>Shortcut? What's that?
>
>
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