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"short circuiting" And and Or

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Subject: [mg70582] "short circuiting" And and Or
From: "Szabolcs Horvat" <szhorvat at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:21:49 -0400 (EDT)

I'd like to write a function that tests whether there are any elements
in a list that violate a certain condition. I could simply use
And@@condition/@list, but for reasons of efficiency I'd like to stop
the testing as soon as a "False" value is found. Is there any elegant
way of doing this without writing an explicit While loop?

Szabolcs Horvát

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