13 May
2005
13 May
'05
4:22 p.m.
On Friday 13 May 2005 14:37, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
From: "Lyle Bickley" <lbickley at
bickleywest.com>
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The first sentence in
The section (and prior discussion) was related to writing code dependent on a
compilers interpretation of order - as opposed to the programmers purposeful
order.
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
the final paragraph reads: "The moral of this
discussion is that writing
code which depends on order of evaluation is a bad programming practice
in any language."
I'll buy that.
Hi
Interesting! I've always considered order of execution
to be one of the fundamentals of being able to predict
what a computer does. I've always thought of it as
an accentual part of programming with predictable results.
Each to their own I say.
Dwight