feature request (&&/|| shortcut)

[Arnold Nipper]

First of all a Happy New Year and a prosperous and successfull 2011 to
everyone! May all your wishes come through!


It looks like BIRD logical && operator is not doing a shortcut. I.e even
if you have s.th. like

if 0 && $some_complex_expression then ...
if 1 || $some_complex_expression then ...

BIRD will try to evaluate $some_complex_expression. Would really be
great if you could short cut this as you may have situations where the
first expression already is false while trying to evaluate 2nd
expression may lead to run time errors in that case. In this case you
would have to use a nested "if first_expression then if 2nd_expression
then" instead of "if first_expression && 2nd_expression then"


TIA and best regards,
Arnold
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Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany
email: arnold at nipper.de       phone: +49 6224 9259 299
mobile: +49 152 53717690      fax:   +49 6224 9259 333

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