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stefan-lucks@see-the.signature writes:
> Now, a really ugly issue is that both the evaluation of A and the 
> evaluation of B might raise an exeption, and we cannot re-raise both 
> exceptions. 

They are executed sequentially, in some arbitrary order, so one wins
first. That is the exception that gets propataged

> If not for other reasons, that suffices not to propagate that. 

This is the worst thing to do, for that silently hides error situations.

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