Why would a language NOT use Short-circuit evaluation?

Reasons NOT to use short-circuit evaluation: Because it will behave differently and produce different results if your functions, property Gets or operator methods have side-effects. And this may conflict with: A) Language Standards, B) previous versions of your language, or C) the default assumptions of your languages typical users. These are the reasons that VB …

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Do all programming languages have boolean short-circuit evaluation?

This is called short-circuit evaluation. It is generally true for languages derived from C (C, C++, Java, C#) but not true for all languages. For example, VB6 does not do this, nor was it done in early versions of VB.NET. VB8 (in Visual studio 2005) introduced the AndAlso and OrElse operators for this purpose. Also, …

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How does C++ handle &&? (Short-circuit evaluation) [duplicate]

Yes, the && operator in C++ uses short-circuit evaluation so that if bool1 evaluates to false it doesn’t bother evaluating bool2. “Short-circuit evaluation” is the fancy term that you want to Google and look for in indexes. The same happens with the || operator, if bool1 evaluates to true then the whole expression will evaluate …

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