IF statement

[Pete]

Fell, you almost stole my trademark line...

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.(tm)

Pete

[Cobalt]

In the spirit of QB64's essence, I don't even think it should.

Agreed.

[Dimster]

Would EXIT IF not be a form of short circuiting? Or does Short Circuiting apply solely to a situation of multiple logical conditions?

[Cobalt]

Would EXIT IF not be a form of short circuiting? Or does Short Circuiting apply solely to a situation of multiple logical conditions?

that bugs out of the entire IF\THEN block spaghetti style .

What he wants here is to have a situation where meeting one criteria of an IF question ,opens the door so to speak, so any other criteria are ignored.

[bplus]

that bugs out of the entire IF\THEN block spaghetti style .

What he wants here is to have a situation where meeting one criteria of an IF question ,opens the door so to speak, so any other criteria are ignored.

Yeah in a series of AND conditions one False Boolean Test (=0) would knock the code execution off the THEN clause and start looking for an ELSE if any (before END IF), it is built in and must require some sort of look ahead in built-in code to know that OR wasn't in that series of ANDs of code line, OR hitting one FALSE it jumps ahead and looks for an OR part to begin evaluating for TRUE.

[TempodiBasic]

I agree with Bplus

Yeah in a series of AND conditions one False Boolean Test (=0) would knock the code execution off the THEN clause and start looking for an ELSE if any (before END IF), it is built in and must require some sort of look ahead in built-in code to know that OR wasn't in that series of ANDs of code line, OR hitting one FALSE it jumps ahead and looks for an OR part to begin evaluating for TRUE.

because a multi presence of AND could lead to the cortocircuit of the evaluation statement, but we need just one OR  or XOR to make a mistake activating the cortocircuit procedure.
So the parser must evaluate BEFORE the OR/XOR options and then from the first to the last AND options....remembering that for OR you can have one or two condition true to get true while for XOR you must have only a condition true to get true
as you can see herehttp://qb64.org/wiki/Bitwise_Operators