Is relying on short-circuit evaluation good design? [closed]

Question

Are there alternatives that would be more preferred?

Answer 1

Short-circuit evaluation is a crucial feature of most modern programming languages and there's no reason to avoid relying on it. Without it pointer-related tests would be (unnecessarily) much more complicated and less readable.

Answer 2

Of course it's good design, everyone knows to expect it and it beats using nested conditionals.