A note on conditional expressions

  • Authors:
  • Daniel P. Friedman;David S. Wise

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana Univ., Bloomington;Indiana Univ., Bloomington

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1978

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Abstract

Evaluation of a conditional expression may succeed even when the “deciding predicate” diverges and the alternatives are records (or nodes) whose fields have different content.