On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:00:17 -0800, "Joshua J. Kugler"
<joshua@eeinternet.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

>
> "This is standard behavior in every real programming language."
>
> There, that should start a flame war. :)
>

Look at Ada... Which has such constructs as

if x /= 0 and then y / x < z then
...
end if


Ada also has "or else" construct. These must be used to enforce
evaluation of the LHS first, and skip evaluation of the RHS based upon
the result. With just "and" or "or", the compiler is free to reorder the
subexpressions for optimization.

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