Re: Date manipulation

From: Binyamin Dissen (postingid_at_dissensoftware.com)
Date: 12/30/03

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:56:35 +0200

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:18:25 GMT "Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote:

:>On 29-Dec-2003, riplin@Azonic.co.nz (Richard) wrote:

:>> > I was under the impression that this gets converted into one call though.

:>> How would the compiler do that ?

:>By having a little bit of smarts. It isn't difficult to see that the same
:>function was called 6 times in one display statement.

How does the compiler know that each time the same result will be returned?

Perhaps a static variable or random number affects the result?

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