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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: C style
Message-ID: <54@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 19:00:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 19:00:14 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 03:18:52 EST
References: <1556@brl-tgr> <2600023@ccvaxa> <259@3comvax.UUCP> <538@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Keywords: &&, order of evaluation

In article <538@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>                                                     ...  The && operator
>doesn't GUARANTEE the chronological order of evaluation is going to be left
>to right, if you have a screwball compiler (though it most probably will be).

Only screwball compilers.  In C, the evaluation of '||' and '&&' is
defined to be L-R.  However, the evaluation of '|' and '&' is not.
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}