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From: sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: Re: Order of evaluation (was Re: evaluating () should be an error
Message-ID: <6260004@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 8 Apr 91 09:55:06 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.224805.23381@cs.ubc.ca>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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Guillermo J. Rozas asks:
> 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.

I *know* I shouldn't bite but I can't resist ....

I would prefer it to unconstrained order but would consider it a ludicrous
choice of order.  Trying to "sell" this order to my colleagues would give me
an ulcer!

Steve