Why would a language NOT use Short-circuit evaluation?

Question

Why would a language NOT use Short-circuit evaluation? Are there any benefits of not using it?

I see that it could lead to some performances issues... is that true?

Answer 1

VB6 doesn't use short-circuit evaluation, I don't know if newer versions do, but I doubt it. I believe this is just because older versions didn't either, and because most of the people who used VB6 wouldn't expect that to happen, and it would lead to confusion.

This is just one of the things that made it extremely hard for me to get out of being a noob VB programmer who wrote spaghetti code, and get on with my journey to be a real programmer.