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Re: "short circuiting" And and Or

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• Subject: [mg70600] Re: [mg70582] "short circuiting" And and Or
• From: Carl Woll <carlw at wolfram.com>
• Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 05:13:33 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200610200921.FAA11062@smc.vnet.net>

Szabolcs Horvat wrote:

>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
>
Here is one idea:

ReleaseHold[
    And @@ (Hold[Positive[#]]& /@ {1,1,-1,1,-1,1})
]

False

Here is one way to check that testing is stopped as soon as a False 
value is found:

ReleaseHold[
    And @@ (Hold[Print[#];Positive[#]]& /@ {1,1,-1,1,-1,-1,1})
]

1
1
-1
False

Carl Woll
Wolfram Research

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    • From: "Szabolcs Horvat" <szhorvat@gmail.com>