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From: jeff@aiai.edinburgh.ac.UK (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Order of evaluation (was Re: evaluating () should be an error
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Date: 4 Apr 91 19:03:21 GMT
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> Date: 4 Apr 91 04:11:49 GMT
> From: "Guillermo J. Rozas" <jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu>

> I'm just curious, but would all of you who advocate for fixing the
> order of argument evaluation accept the following order:
>
> All the even numbered arguments are evaluated first from right to
> left, and then the odd numbered arguments are evaluated from left to right.

No.  There's no reason not to pick a fixed order that's easier
for human readers to follow.