Guard sequences, short circuit boolean operators

Matthias Kretschmer mccratch@REDACTED
Mon Feb 7 19:24:36 CET 2005


Hello

I just wonder why andalso and orelse aren't allowed in guard sequences. 
Even in the case of backward compatibility it makes no sense, they are 
just equal to the normal "and" and "or" (ignoring precedence rules ...) 
as far as I understand the reference manual correctly. I just want to 
know the reason for this ... - in my humble opinion it looks a bit weird 
using andalso in one place and being forced to use and in another place 
to have the same thing (or using a "," which I assume is something left 
from the days when Erlang was running in a Prolog system?).

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Cheers
Matthias Kretschmer



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