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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: learning C (was: Re: ambiguous ?)
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Date: 25 Oct 89 00:11:15 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Oct 24 10:01:00 1989



From the well-known jlg:

>However, my _POINT_ was that, if the short circuit nature of these
>operators is valuable, then there might also be other contexts where
>user control of expression evaluation order might _ALSO_ be valuable!
>C doesn't provide such other mechanisms - WHY NOT?!?!?!?

Ummm- the user always has control of evaluation order in && and ||
constructs. And any other place too, by use of temporary variables.
I thought this flame war was  over the inability of the compiler
to optimize evaluation order in && and || constructs.