Does the compiler continue evaluating an expression where all must be true if the first is false?

Question

I\'m sure this question has probably been answered before, so I apologize, but I wasn\'t able to find the proper search terms to find the answer.

Given the following

Answer 1

It is shortcircuiting and allows you to do things like this:

if(ob && ob.somefunc()) { ... }

if both operations were evaluated, there would be a possibility of referencing a null object, which would be a runtime exception.