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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical analysis
Message-ID: <3117@lanl.gov>
Date: 1 Sep 88 17:55:34 GMT
References: <338@quintus.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <338@quintus.UUCP>, by ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe):
> Fortran's kludge of using () to control evaluation order (which means that
> it has no way of expressing plain grouping *without* forcing evaluation
> order) has been adopted in the draft ANSI C standard, so this should cease
> to be a problem.

It was proposed in a previous draft.  Significant parenthesis has more
recently been excluded again.  (If it has been included yet again, I 
haven't heard yet - the committee seems about evenly split on this.)

J. Giles
Los Alamos