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- From: eric@tfs.com (Eric Smith)
- Subject: Re: Answers on a postcard...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.204500.16311@tfs.com>
- Organization: TFS
- References: <1992Sep11.174716.3699@taumet.com> <92256.150512KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET> <1992Sep13.160033.7735@taumet.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 20:45:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.160033.7735@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage) writes:
- ...
- >It would be possible to change the rules so that order of evaluation
- >was preserved for overloaded versions of operators "&&", "||", and ",".
- >Any proposal to do so would have to show some good reason why the
-
- Why not just require all function arguments to always be evaluated left
- to right? That would simplify the language, shorten its description,
- make it easier for novices to learn, and would not break any existing
- bug-free code. I never did understand the value of leaving such
- questions open, which accomplishes nothing useful and makes bugs
- behave differently with different compilers.
-