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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2004-02@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: In-Out Parameters for functions
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

>it is unwise to write expressions that have more than one possible
>value based on evaluation order.

It is not only unwise, it is plain stupid.

>So no correct existing programs necessarily need to be pessimized by
>fixing evaluation order.

Precisely. You don't need to fix the evaluation order. It wouldn't
help anyway because the code remains to be stupid.


Vinzent.