Adrian Bateman

Englishman in Seattle.

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Paul Vick provides a bit of history about where the short circuiting logical operators got their names. One of the projects I’m working on currently is being written in VB.NET and I have to make a conscious effort to regularly do a search through my code to replace And and Or with AndAlso and OrElse since it is rare (never?) that I don’t want the short circuit to be taken if possible.

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