Re: [Haskell-beginners] if ands

2009/11/6 Keith Sheppard :

Also, an nice way to check how evaluation works in ghci is to do something like:

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if False && error "error here" then "it's true" else "it's false"

This expression will evaluate as "it's false" without any "error here" error message appearing

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Nathan M. Holden wrote:

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If you have an if statement like

if (a&&b) then fun else fun'

and a is false, does GHC actually bother to check b?

Note that Haskell is far from the only programming language that is smart about this. I actually can't think of a single programming language implementation that I know of which isn't this smart... For what it's worth, Haskell (and others) is smart about ORs as well. In (x || y), y will only be evaluated if x is False. -- Deniz Dogan