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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical analysis
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Date: 1 Sep 88 11:12:35 GMT
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In article <3064@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>The fact that C parentheses don't force execution order is sufficient
>to exclude C from use in some instances.

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.