>>>Personally I never use left-to-right conditional execution even in languages that explicitly support it. IMO it makes code hard to understand and is a significant source of nasty bugs. Not to mention that these days, vendors are working hard on optimizing compilers which, if they're at all buggy, will likely have effects like you've seen here. Just say no ;)
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>>I've to disagree with you. I use it all the time. If used properly, it makes code simpler, easier to read and maintain. I never encounter any bugs related to it.
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>Sergey, thank you for outlining this to Al. And, same as you, I too use it all the time.

Me three :)