Re: Lazy evaluation?

on 1/16/02 5:57 AM, Miles Thompson at milesthompson@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: > For "or" statements it does, but not && or xor. I don't know about you, > but > I wouldn't want lazy evaluation on a conditional statement involving "and". i'm new to all this stuff, so i'll bite. hopefully someone can explain what i'm missing. if i have a statement like if (($a == 'a') && ($b == 'b')) blahblahblah(); and, $a != 'a'. why should php even look at the value for $b while evaluating this line? shouldn't the if fail after evaluating $a? thanks, mike -- mike cullerton michaelc at cullerton dot com