Re: Is this a bug in my code or the compiler?

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 06/12/2015 10:53 AM, David Botton wrote:
> 
> A programmer having to worry about order of operation in a concatenation
> operation is a language flaw in my opinion. I can accept the issue in
> evaluation order of Boolean expressions or numerics (and knew of that), but
> not in non numeric types.

Boolean is a non-numeric type. You must mean "non-numeric types other than
boolean types".

You're using

function "&" (Left : in Character; Right : in String) return String;

which is predefined (and a similar "&" is predefined for all 1-D array types),
and want it to have different evaluation rules than if you define

function "&" (Left : in Integer; Right : in Integer) return Integer;

?

Order of evaluation is not defined for any subprogram (with more than 1
parameter). That's a simple rule. What you want seems much more complex.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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