Dave Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 07:58:08PM -0700, Tom Bombadil wrote:
>> Does exim short circuits the AND?
>
> According to the spec:
>
> "When a false sub-condition is found, the following ones are parsed but not
> evaluated."
>
> and likewise for OR:
>
> "When a true sub-condition is found, the following ones are parsed but not
> evaluated."
>
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch11.html#SECID84
>
>
Thanks for your response Dave.
Sorry for my stupidity here, but what does "parse" and "evaluate"
actually mean in this context?
Are variable expansions, file lookups, queries, etc, inside a
sub-condition a part of the parsing or evaluation process?
Cheers
