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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
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In article <3C360E76.3070308@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> Matthew Heaney wrote:
> 
>> When order of evaluation is significant, the Ada designers decided that a
>> special syntax is called for.
> 
> 
> Forget that any other programming languages exist, for the moment.
> 
> If I use "and" and I'm wrong in assuming that the order doesn't matter,
> then I have introduced a subtle bug. If I'm right, then I haven't gained
> anything.

You have gained the ability for the compiler to optimize better
and for a maintainer to alter the order knowing there is no ordering
requirement.