Re: [boost] [tribool] short-circuting issue with overloads of operator|| and operator&&

From: klaus triendl (klaus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-20 10:13:24

Alex MDC schrieb:
>> Is this by design and do I have to access the tribool's 'value' member
>> directly?
> 
> 
> I wouldn't say it's "by design" - rather it's an unfortunate limitation of
> C++ that overloaded boolean operators cannot emulate the short-circuiting
> behaviour as with builtin types.

Hmm, I didn't look thoroughly at it but wouldn't it be possible to 
remove these overloads?
I've seen a proposal for bool_set that doesn't overload (anymore) the 
two logical operators.

--
Klaus