Yikes!
Both these function evaluate the second parameter regardless. This goes against the "feel" of everthing else in the language (eg IIF())

eg.
? nvl('x', temp())

procedure temp
wait window 'hi'


will run temp!
I don't like it. :-(
It takes away a lot of the usefulness of the evl and nvl functions - which I otherwise just love.

Hey MS - Any plans to change of "fix" this.