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From: dik@mcvax.uucp (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Expression sequencing query
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Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 16:02:05 EDT
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In article <3769@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>                                        Even in Fortran I (where,
>I believe, the language specification says that (A+B)+C is requires
>doing A+B first, then result+C) I would write
>
>	RESULT = A + B
>	RESULT = RESULT + C
>
And so should it.  Once I required the expression (A - B) - C evaluated
exactly that way.  It didn't do so.  However, after removing the
parenthesis it was evaluated the way I wanted.  Counterintuitive?
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