Re: [exim] and/or

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Auteur: Tom Bombadil
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À: exim-users
Sujet: Re: [exim] and/or
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