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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:51:44 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:
> As I have said over and over again, the problematic case is when
> it matters, and no one notices, and the compiler happens to do
> what you want. Then a change in environment could result in the
> order changing, and all of a sudden, code mysteriously breaks.

And the life and death case is when it matters and the compiler does
what you want, and then maintainers change something, and after they
discover there were uncommented, incredibly subtle order issues, they
go out to kill the original smart-ass programmer.