• Short-circuit evaluation, minimal evaluation, or McCarthy evaluation (after John McCarthy) is the semantics of some Boolean operators in some programming...
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  • evaluation, or call-by-need, is an evaluation strategy which delays the evaluation of an expression until its value is needed (non-strict evaluation)...
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  • many languages use a form of non-strict evaluation called short-circuit evaluation, where evaluation evaluates the left expression but may skip the right...
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  • animated web short films Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz, MTV sketch comedy TV show Short-circuit evaluation, a form of Boolean evaluation in programming...
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  • (1993). Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation. Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780130202499. Danvy, O., ed. (1999). "Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based...
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    otherwise evaluates and returns its second operand. The second operand is only evaluated if it is to be returned (short-circuit evaluation). The notation...
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  • McCarthy (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Tétrault, a Canadian law firm McCarthy evaluation, programming-language semantics also called short-circuit evaluation McCarty Creek, a stream in Missouri...
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  • Ternary conditional operator (category Articles with short description)
    provides short-circuit evaluation semantics, whereby only the selected expression is evaluated (most standard operators in most languages evaluate all arguments)...
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  • Per-unit system (category Articles with short description)
    were referenced to. The per-unit system is used in power flow, short circuit evaluation, motor starting studies etc. The main idea of a per unit system...
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  • exactly the same as those obtained via Laplace transforms. For short circuit evaluation, RL circuit is considered. The more general equation is: v i n ( t )...
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  • Test and test-and-set (category Articles with short description)
    likelihood of success. If the programming language used supports short-circuit evaluation, the entry protocol could be implemented as: procedure EnterCritical()...
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  • Three-way comparison (category Articles with short description)
    but not necessarily less legible. The above takes advantage of short-circuit evaluation of the || operator, and the fact that 0 is considered false in...
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  • the client. Remote evaluation belongs to the family of mobile code, within the field of code mobility. An example for remote evaluation is grid computing:...
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    Bash (Unix shell) (category Articles with short description)
    the ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_login. The [ -r filename ] && cmd is a short-circuit evaluation that tests if filename exists and is readable, skipping the part...
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  • Bitwise operations in C (category Articles with short description)
    value true. Another difference is that logical operators perform short-circuit evaluation. The table below matches equivalent operators and shows a and b...
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  • Operators in C and C++ (category Articles with short description)
    overloaded operators they always evaluate both operands instead of providing the normal semantics of short-circuit evaluation. C and C++ have the same bitwise...
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    the test must use short-circuit evaluation, otherwise the test might result in an array bounds error, when j=0 and it tries to evaluate A[j-1] > A[j] (i...
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  • Sequence point (category Articles with short description)
    calls.) Between evaluation of the left and right operands of the && (logical AND), || (logical OR) (as part of short-circuit evaluation), and comma operators...
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    both statements are not evaluated in total, if U == NULL. Then in both cases U->color is not touched (see Short-circuit evaluation). (The comment considered...
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  • The prospective short-circuit current (PSCC), available fault current, or short-circuit making current is the highest electric current which can exist...
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    Recursion (computer science) (category Articles with short description)
    expression evaluates to a Boolean. This is a common idiom in recursive short-circuiting. This is in addition to the short-circuit evaluation of the Boolean...
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  • And then (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    And then or And Then may refer to: The Short-circuit evaluation operator "and" And Then, the English name of the Japanese novel Sorekara by Natsume Sōseki...
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    operator, though it will be evaluated prior to execution). Overloaded "&&" and "||" operators lose their short-circuit evaluation property. Polymorphism enables...
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    logical operators and, or and not. The and and or operators do short-circuit evaluation and will return their first nil and non-nil argument respectively...
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  • Code coverage (category Articles with short description)
    case makes it true. In programming languages that do not perform short-circuit evaluation, condition coverage does not necessarily imply branch coverage...
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  • Relational operator (category Articles with short description)
    standard. SQL follows strict boolean algebra, i.e. doesn't use short-circuit evaluation, which is common to most languages below. E.g. PHP has it, but...
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  • Strict function (category Evaluation strategy)
    changing the meaning of the enclosing program. Eager evaluation Lazy evaluation Short-circuit evaluation "A Gentle Introduction to Haskell: Functions". www...
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    after a sequence point. In the case of short-circuit evaluation, the second expression may not be evaluated depending on the result of the first expression...
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  • computation are needed Minimal evaluation or short circuit evaluation, an evaluation strategy in which an expression is only evaluated until the point where its...
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  • In an electrical grid, the short circuit ratio (or SCR) is the ratio of: the short circuit apparent power (SCMVA) in the case of a line-line-line-ground...
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