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From: "Andy Knight" <KnighA@tetraworld.com>
Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results
Date: 1997/11/20
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Terry Richards wrote in message <347440AD.35DF@idt.net>...

[ snip ]

>All of these constructs are flat out wrong. As far as I can remember,
>neither C or C++ guarantees that the clauses in a condition will be
>evaluated in the order you wrote them. IOW,
>
>if (call_this() || call_that());
>
>could compile as if it where written:
>
>if (call_that() || call_this());
>
>which could have different results.
>

No it won't. The left-to-right evaluation is well defined.

[ snip ]