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Short Circuit Evaluation (cont.)

• C, C++, and Java: use short-circuit evaluation for the usual Boolean operators (&& and ||), but also provide bitwise operators that are not short circuit (& and |)

• Ada: programmer can specify either (short-circuit is specified with and then and or else)

• FORTRAN 77: short circuit, but any side-affected place must be set to undefined

• Short-circuit evaluation exposes the potential

• problem of side effects in expressions

• C Example: (a > b) || (b++ / 3)