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Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:36:15 -0500
From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
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Darren New wrote:

> Hyman Rosen wrote:
>>So in Ada, one could say 'if a /= 0 and b/a > 3' and fall into a
>>trap that would not happen in C/C++. Discuss?
> Or, in C, you could say
>   if (func_with_side_effects(1) || func_with_side_effects(2)) {...}
> and also not get the answer you might expect.


It would be the answer *I* expect :-) In Ada, the answer would be
indeterminate as well if the order of the side effects mattered.