merlyn@starfire.UUCP (Brian Westley) (12/25/87)
In reading some of the articles about the new ANSI proposal for order of
evaluation, some people seem to be saying that:
a+b+c ..is evaluated left to right as (a+b)+c ..therefore, you could not
compute it as, say, a+(b+c)
Is simple left-to-right order of evaluation as strong as literal parentheses?
I would prefer that:
a+b+c ..can be evaluated in any order
(a+b)+c ..can be evaluated in 4 ways: (a+b)+c, (b+a)+c, c+(a+b), c+(b+a)
..but not as (a+c)+b, (c+a)+b, etc.
Can someone clarify what the current proposal says?
Merlyn LeRoy