Top "Short-circuiting" questions

A feature of some languages to skip certain code at runtime that doesn't affect the outcome, especially when testing compound conditions

Do the &= and |= operators for bool short-circuit?

When writing code like this in C++: bool allTrue = true; allTrue = allTrue && check_foo(); allTrue = allTrue && …

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How does C++ handle &&? (Short-circuit evaluation)

When encountering a (bool1 && bool2), does c++ ever attempts to check bool2 if bool1 was found false or …

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In C++, why does true && true || false && false == true?

I'd like to know if someone knows the way a compiler would interpret the following code: #include <iostream> …

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Is short-circuiting logical operators mandated? And evaluation order?

Does the ANSI standard mandate the logical operators to be short-circuited, in either C or C++? I'm confused for I …

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What is the difference between Perl's ( or, and ) and ( ||, && ) short-circuit operators?

Which of these subroutines is not like the other? sub or1 { my ($a,$b) = @_; return $a || $b; } sub or2 { my ($…

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Execution order of conditions in C# If statement

There are two if statements below that have multiple conditions using logical operators. Logically both are same but the order …

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Does PHP have short-circuit evaluation?

Given the following code: if (is_valid($string) && up_to_length($string) && file_exists($file)) { ...... } If …

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Hystrix Configuration

I am trying to implement hystrix for my application using hystrix-javanica. I have configured hystrix-configuration.properties as below hystrix.command.…

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Java ternary (immediate if) evaluation

I can't find the relevant portion of the spec to answer this. In a conditional operator statement in Java, are …

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Is relying on && short-circuiting safe in .NET?

Assume myObj is null. Is it safe to write this? if(myObj != null && myObj.SomeString != null) I know …

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