Re: One last chapter to review! Last chance! One-day only!

From: David Steuber (david_at_david-steuber.com)
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: 08 Mar 2005 03:12:26 -0500

rydis (Martin Rydstr|m) @CD.Chalmers.SE writes:

> > What strikes as perverse is to write code that depends upon the
> > order of argument evaluation.
>
> Not when that order is specified (in the language or the
> implementation). Why would it be?

I was sort of wondering the same thing. Isn't something like:

(if (foo) (bar) (baz))

rather dependent on the order of evaluation?

Although I can see where you might be standing on shaky ground if you
are doing foo bar baz for side effects in something like:

(and (foo) (bar) (baz))

But even that can be perfectly fine. 

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