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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/expr.n | 9 |
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@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Then the command on the left side of each of the lines below will produce the value on the right side of the line: .PP .CS -.ta 6c +.ta 8c \fBexpr\fR 3.1 + $a \fI6.1\fR \fBexpr\fR 2 + "$a.$b" \fI5.6\fR \fBexpr\fR 4*[llength "6 2"] \fI8\fR @@ -201,18 +201,23 @@ Bit-wise OR. Valid for integer operands only. Logical AND. Produces a 1 result if both operands are non-zero, 0 otherwise. Valid for boolean and numeric (integers or floating-point) operands only. +This operator evaluates lazily; it only evaluates its second operand if it +must in order to determine its result. .TP 20 \fB||\fR . Logical OR. Produces a 0 result if both operands are zero, 1 otherwise. Valid for boolean and numeric (integers or floating-point) operands only. +This operator evaluates lazily; it only evaluates its second operand if it +must in order to determine its result. .TP 20 -\fIx\fB?\fIy\fB:\fIz\fR +\fIx \fB?\fI y \fB:\fI z\fR . If-then-else, as in C. If \fIx\fR evaluates to non-zero, then the result is the value of \fIy\fR. Otherwise the result is the value of \fIz\fR. The \fIx\fR operand must have a boolean or numeric value. +This operator evaluates lazily; it evaluates only one of \fIy\fR or \fIz\fR. .PP See the C manual for more details on the results produced by each operator. |