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Article #9596Re: Expression sequencing query
From: dik Dik T. Winter
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1986 20:52
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1986 20:52
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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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