Re: eliminate conditional short-circuit behavior for | and & operators?

[Philipp Kutin]

On Tue Dec 10 22:48:43 CST 2013, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I propose the following change:
> (...)
>    * Move the warning from the parser to the evaluator.

I have generally appreciated Octave's maybe-short-circuit-eval warning
because it basically told me "look, this code uses questionable
features and ought to be cleaned up", an advice which I gladly
accepted.

> (...) Matlab's rules for
> short-circuit evaluation are not just about the operators being inside
> IF or WHILE conditions, but also that the first operand is a scalar.

Ouch. That really warrants the "braindead" label.

--Philipp