[Haskell-cafe] Why are && and || right-associative?

Neil Mayhew neil_mayhew at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Apr 12 18:43:54 UTC 2019


On 2019-04-12 8:47 AM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
> Perhaps those other languages got it wrong, then. :)

I don't think so. It's just that short-circuit evaluation isn't a direct 
consequence of associativity in those languages because they're 
otherwise strict and this is an exception to their default semantics.
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