That's probably what he means.

But in one way the SELECT statement is a little smarter...if there is an index on field1, this code will not call function1() for every record in the table.

select * from table1 where function1() and field1 = "Test"

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>This is what he means, I think:
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IF .F. AND DontEval()
>	? "Don't print"
>ENDIF
>
>FUNCTION DontEval
>	? "Don't Print"
>ENDif