Chapter 6, Problem 12E

Explanation of Solution

Plausible scenario to avoid short-circuit evaluation of Boolean expression:

• Suppose one wants to count the occurrences of words in a document, and wants to print the list of all misspelled words that appear ten or more time.
• Additional with a count of the total number of misspellings.
• The following Pascal code depicts the above program situation.

        1. function tally(word : string) : integer;

        2. (* Look up word in hash table. If found, increment             tally; If not found, enter with a tally of 1. In             either case, return tally. *)

        ...

        3. function misspelled(word : string) : Boolean;

        4. (* Check to see if word is misspelled and return             appropriate indication...