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24 Imports Microsoft
.VisualBasic
25 Public Class TestClass
27 'the Visual Basic compiler calls every function in every expression.
28 'This means that you cannot rely on a particular function not being called
29 'if the other argument is selected by Expression
30 Private m_value
As String
32 Public Function Test() As String
33 Return IIf(foo_Expression
, foo1
, foo2
)
35 Public Function foo_Expression() As Integer
38 Public Function foo1() As String
39 m_value
= m_value
& "foo1"
40 Return m_value
& "TruePart"
42 Public Function foo2() As String
43 m_value
= m_value
& "foo2"
44 Return m_value
& "FalsePart"