Re: Lazy evaluation?

Dude, why don't you just check it out yourself? You'll never be 100% certain by asking people around anyway, because most people have distinct opinions on most issues. So then: <? $lala=false; if ((1>2) && ($lala=(1<2)) {}; if ($lala) { echo("Me, lazy?! I check EVERYTHING!"); } else { echo("OK, call me lazy!"); } ?> Bogdan mike cullerton wrote: > on 1/16/02 5:57 AM, Miles Thompson at milesthompson@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: > > > For "or" statements it does, but not && or xor. I don't know about > > you, but > > I wouldn't want lazy evaluation on a conditional statement involving "and". > > i'm new to all this stuff, so i'll bite. hopefully someone can explain what > i'm missing. > > if i have a statement like > > if (($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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net