Checking conditions [IF ... THEN ... ELSE] performance

[Tim Wessman]

I believe it is working as designed. I'm not sure if there is a generic way we can handle this due to PPL being both a math language, and program language though.

I've put it on the list to look at conditional short circuiting. If anything, I suspect the AND priority is what is impacting things here. Since it needs to be lower then other operators/functions it is most likely not evaluating till everything else has completed. Might not be a simple, general solution for this though...