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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Questions about IF
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.130917.20736@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 26 Jun 91 13:09:17 GMT
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References: <26384@lanl.gov> <1991Jun25.124806.15349@cs.dal.ca> <26462@beta.gov>
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <26462@beta.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>You misunderstand the parenthesis rule.  The objects I've called
>`expr1', `expr2', and `expr3' can be evaluated in _any_ order.
>The parenthesis force the 'and' between `expr2' and `expr3' to 
>be evaluated before the other 'and'.  That's all.

What's the point?  The original posting asked about the order in which
the expressions were evaluated, since that can have side effects.  What
difference does it make in what order the AND's are evaluated?

Bill
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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