Re: Task discriminants

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
news:YIadnaE4uYUXxjPd4p2dnA@megapath.net...
> > Difinately one for the language lawyers but _in_the_real_world_ I've yet
> to
> > come across a compiler that did anything other than the 'sensible'
thing.
> >
> > Randy are there? :-)
>
> The RM says "arbitrary order" for initializing subcomponents of object
> declarations (see 3.3.1(20) - this is the "fourth step"). So you can't
> depend on it.
>
> OTOH, it's fairly hard to imagine why an implementation would do anything
> other than use a loop to do it, which would of course give the right
answer.
> So practically, it probably would work right.

For once I'd actually spotted that! But when ever I try and quote the RM
there is always some other section that proved me wrong! ;-)