Re: Question about short circuit operators

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 25 February 2011 11:30, Michael D Godfrey <address@hidden> wrote:
> Well, OK.  To the extent that the warning reminds people of the weird
> Matlab behavior I guess it is OK.   But, in the quoted cases of no
> side-effect
> the warning is otherwise meaningless.

It sounds to me really complicated to implement to make the
interpreter figure out if an expression being short circuited or not
has a side effect. It's probably equivalent to a halting problem. I
think it's easier to let humans figure it out, and the warning lets
them know if they have to figure it out or not.

- Jordi G. H.