I too am STILL waiting on the short-circuit evaluation to be implemented...

I grow tired of using work-arounds like
Code:
void main() {
	ENTITY* ent = NULL;
	if(ent!=NULL) if(is(ent, FLAG1))
	{
		beep();
	}
}
because there is some you just cant do...

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