Benefits of using short-circuit evaluation

Question

boolean a = false, b = true;
if ( a && b ) { ... };

In most languages, b will not get evaluated because a is fals

Answer 1

Languages supporting short-circuiting:

Ada, Eiffel, ALGOL 68, C1, C++, C#, Java, R, Erlang, Standard ML, Javascript, MATLAB, Lisp, Lua, Scheme, OCaml, Haskell, Pascal,Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, Smalltalk, Visual Basic .NET

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