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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message 
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> kuyper@wizard.net wrote:

> Specifying order of evaluation completely in C++ would
> be completely backwards-compatible with C, though, so
> that's no excuse here.

The trouble is that if order of evaluation were completely specified in C++, 
there might be C++ compilers that would be required to give different 
results from existing C implementations for the same program (assuming, of 
course, that the program was in the intersection of C and C++).

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