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>compiler designers learned well from the likes of Aho and Holub. If you choose to not call this short-circuiting of evaluation something other than optimization, you are free to call it whatever you want. I might suggest "Fred" as a good alternate name. *s*

Didn't Ashton-Tate used to have a product called FrameWork that used a programming language called "Fred"?

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