From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!wbux5!wb2!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!donchin Newsgroups: net.lang.c Title: Re: Re: order of evaluation parse date s - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1660 Posted: Sun Mar 13 22:34:35 1983 Received: Tue Mar 15 08:27:09 1983 #R:houxj:-22000:uiucdcs:27600012:000:460 uiucdcs!donchin Mar 11 21:56:00 1983 The rethinking in the last note is of an entirely different form from the thoughts in the response it addressed. The original argument (that the resulting value for i should be 5) was looking at the question from a high level point of view. He was showing that the two reasonable human interpretations for the expression both yeild the same result, and the computer interpretation should be made to conform. Regardless of how the computer works internally.