From -2249140582143024349 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,52112cea9d2ccd4a X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:10:01 -0500 Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu Message-ID: <42E5536F.8050407@tiscali.nl> From: Marc Schoolderman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A75=2E2=2E2/8_unspecified_evluation_od?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?er=3F?= References: <42e41533$0$11001$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:06:25 CST Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.182.171.162 X-Trace: sv3-kAxNLahbDesheXCUT54b2Ztj1raK4xRsjlK8ILiGu8jOAxz1u0O0JAC0HZpQ1f00GwhsqIUFdpfV00E!ssngPpt3nnVREYPAJ6y35WcPBBwD1uAMpHJCll+V0dpdygY7lUiZQboFwch8CIkN8RFUTYXk/MlP!mKvf7PRj X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:1484 Hyman Rosen wrote: > Evaluation should proceed > left-to-right. First the function name or expression itself is > evaluated, then each parameter is initialized in turn from its > argument expression, and that expression is fully evaluated with > all side effects completed before evaluation of the next begins. > If an exception is thrown during this process, then all already- > initialized parameters are destructed. That is the only sane and > sensible way to define the process. Then, you'll still have problems in cases like these; istream_iterator w(cin); if( *w++ < *w++ ) ... One of the things I have come to appreciate about C(++) is that the freedom of expressiviness comes with an equal responsibility not to cram too much in one statement. ~Marc. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]