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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <11399@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:04:40 GMT
References: <11388@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14110@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <14110@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>user control of expression evaluation order might _ALSO_ be valuable!
>C doesn't provide such other mechanisms - WHY NOT?!?!?!?

Sure it does, you just have to know how to obtain the effect using
what the language provides.

>> discussion about whether what is, should be, are a waste of time.
>Why?  Is C set in concrete?

Actually, yes it is, for things like this.