New short-circuit AND/OR operators in FB

DaveUnit · Post by **DaveUnit** » May 23, 2008 15:01

What's wrong with && and ||?
Nice and quick to type.
I suppose it's not very BASIC, but it looks much nicer in my opinion. And I guess you'd hafta change and/or to &/| to keep with the current look. Maybe if the operators could be represented in 2 ways?

cha0s · Post by **cha0s** » May 23, 2008 15:28

DaveUnit, what are you trying to get us killed by the fanatics..?

mambazo · Post by **mambazo** » May 23, 2008 15:32

@cha0s: lol

@all: How about a convention similar to if and iif.

Maybe AndS and OrS. S for short-circuit.

DaveUnit · Post by **DaveUnit** » May 23, 2008 15:34

My bad, cha0s. :X

cha0s · Post by **cha0s** » May 23, 2008 15:36

Hey I like ands and ors, it looks good even when you don't capitalize.

krcko · Post by **krcko** » May 23, 2008 15:53

i just don't see what's wrong with AndAlso and OrElse? i mean, microsoft decided to use those, why we should same thing name differently?

duke4e · Post by **duke4e** » May 23, 2008 16:24

new "and" and "or" need to be as short as possible.
i whould even be happy with "and2" and "or2"

wolfstar · Post by **wolfstar** » May 23, 2008 16:26

I like AndAlso and OrElse, 'cause it won't take long for people to put them somewhere other than in an IF statement. Or deleters idea's the best i think.

Post by **counting_pine** » May 23, 2008 16:58

Personally, I think they look OK outside of If statements.
But I think Hexadecimal Dude has a point - they do look too much like part of the If..ElseIf..EndIf structure.
I think that was probably a significant consideration in the minds of Microsoft when they named those operators in the first place.

Eclipzer · Post by **Eclipzer** » May 23, 2008 17:48

Okay, so understanding that these are short-circuit and/or I think ands/ors would be a better choice, since really they're just an extension to standard and/or. But, why not have some fun and name them sand/sor? =)

DaveUnit · Post by **DaveUnit** » May 23, 2008 18:22

I like sand/sor!

calstover · Post by **calstover** » May 23, 2008 19:04

Another vote for sand and sor

and a vote against && and ||. Don't make me use the shift key when I'm trying to think ;-)

anonymous1337 · Post by **anonymous1337** » May 23, 2008 19:35

krcko wrote:i just don't see what's wrong with AndAlso and OrElse? i mean, microsoft decided to use those, why we should same thing name differently?

Microsoft decided to charge for their products. We might as well do the same! In that case... I have an announcement to make. I will now start contributing to the compiler source :D

But I think Hexadecimal Dude has a point - they do look too much like part of the If..ElseIf..EndIf structure.

Isn't that pretty much what they end up being in the end? They are short-circuited, or whatever.

Another vote for sand and sor

Sand Sor! Him and Gland Glor are going to take over the world :D

D.J.Peters · Post by **D.J.Peters** » May 23, 2008 19:41

You need not to define NEW FB only names LAND and LOR are often used for this.

http://www.google.de/search?&q=logic+op ... ND+and+LOR

Joshy

anonymous1337 · Post by **anonymous1337** » May 23, 2008 19:43

Then Land Lor and Gland Gor will take over the world together :D

New short-circuit AND/OR operators in FB

my vote