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### and then

#### Synopsis

         { `and then' is built in. A user-defined operator cannot consist of
            two words. }
         operator and then (operand1, operand2: Boolean) = Result: Boolean;

#### Description

`and then` is an alias for the short-circuit logical operator `and_then`.

#### Conforming to

While `and_then` is defined in ISO 10206 Extended Pascal, `and then` is a GNU Pascal extension.

#### Example

         program AndThenDemo;
         var
           p: ^Integer;
         begin
           New (p);
           ReadLn (p^);
           if (p <> nil) and then (p^ < 42) then  { This is safe. }
             WriteLn (p^, ' is less than 42')
         end.

#### See also

Keywords, and_then, and, or else.