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From: jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net (Jim Rogers)
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Subject: Re: In-Out Parameters for functions
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote in message news:<mailman.20.1077669870.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>...
> I think Hyman has two valid points:
> 
> 1) if the language specified left-to-right order, there would never be
>    a need to "kill the original smart-ass programmer"
> 
> 2) Does anyone have a real example of a compiler taking advantage of
>    the evaluation order freedom to speed up a program?

But how does his order of evaluation work with named notation?
Is the order determined by the order of the formal parameters, or by
the order of the actual parameters?

In Ada it is not as easy to determine parameter order because of
named notation.

Jim Rogers