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Re: PDD 2, vtables

From:
Branden
Date:
February 6, 2001 05:31
Subject:
Re: PDD 2, vtables
Message ID:
OE46f3mOV9e8L25s5rQ00002edd@hotmail.com
Simon Cozens wrote:
> > > =item logical_or
> > > =item logical_and
> > > =item logical_not
> >
> > Er, why not just use get_bool?
>
> Overloading.
>

Please see my previous post on the subject. As I pointed there, implementing
|| and && like that breaks short-circuits.

- Branden

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