On Wed, 16 May 2001, Hal E. Fulton wrote: > The only drawback to short-circuiting, of course, is that > some expressions may never be evaluated. Often you > want that (especially if you're used to thinking that way). > But what if you specifically want to evaluate them all? > > Full evaluation: > if foo() AND bar() AND bam() then... > # bar() and bam() will always execute You can use "&" and "|" for full evaluation: if foo() & bar() & bam() then... If their return values are not necessarily booleans, then you can coerce them into booleans by negating twice with !!: if (!!foo()) & (!!bar()) & (!!bam()) then... matju