Re: Re: Order of Evaluation (plus ?'s)

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From: Wm E Davidsen Jr
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 15:07

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In article <12570034@hpclwjm.HP.COM> walter@hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray) writes:

| There are times when the parentheses aren't even needed.  ANSI C guarantees
| that
|    p = q + r + s;
| will behave exactly the same as
|    p = (q + r) + s;

  Could you quote sections on that? I don't seem to find the part which
says that expressions are evaluated left to right.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen
From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Re: Order of Evaluation (plus ?'s)
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Date: 21 Nov 89 15:07:08 GMT
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