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From: sean@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Sean P. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Funny evaluation of functions
Keywords: functions, precedence
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Date: 23 Aug 89 19:21:11 GMT
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I'm pretty sure that standard Pascal (and Turbo as well) evaluates expressions
from right to left. That is, your function is invoked FIRST, which changes y,
resulting in 5*5 as opposed to the "intuitive" 4*5 you intended.

Somebody presented a theory to me as to why this was implemented this way,
but I can't remember what it was and think it was stupid anyways. *grin*

--- Sean

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