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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2004-02@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: In-Out Parameters for functions
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

>It would help by making the "stupid" code work the same way
>everywhere, cutting down an opportunity for error. And then
>it would lead to non-stupid uses, such as the initialization
>code I've been posting.

Maybe. But it will also lead to more stupid code because we now know
about the evaluation order and thus can (or even: must) do
optimizations ourselves. That sort of optimizations that we would
normally leave to the compiler.


Vinzent.