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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Parameter evaluation order
Date: 1998/04/16
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As a quick addendum: the term 'non-deterministic' has been bandied about in
this thread, when the (longer!) term 'sequentially non-deterministic' might
have been clearer. Alternatively, the term 'unsequenced' could be used
(although it is usually used only in the context of parallel processing, I
don't see why not).

None of the constructs being discussed are actually non-deterministic (in
the conventional sense): this is a very esoteric branch of computing indeed!
(Related to natural learning systems, for the curious.) (Oh, and lottery
machines!)

--
Nick Roberts, Croydon, UK
Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com