Re: Re: If...Or...Else

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:42:42 +0200 "rush" <pipa@rush.avalon.hr> wrote: > "Jason Davidson" <jason.davidson@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:6c925ae204072412386fa9cefa@mail.gmail.com... > > ah right.. :) > > Jason > > OR has a very low priority , and right argument is not evaluated if left > one is true. Same thing happens with ||, FWIW. The if condition is not evaluated further than it needs to be in either case. > In other words OR is here so that you could in pre exception > handling days easily write something like this: > > mysql_query(...) OR die; This also works with ||: mysql_query(...) || die; I just wanted to make things clear, because the way you said it above may lead to misinterpretations, such as believing that || makes all the elements in a condition evaluate even if not necessary, which is not true. So OR simply has lower precedence than ||, but no other hidden properties. Any idea why the need to have two logical operators with the same meaning BUT different precedences? I dig the need to put in OR as an alias, but why confuse people with the precedence issue? One would tend to think || and OR are perfectly interchangeable. -- Skippy - Romanian Web Developers - http://ROWD.ORG