Evaluation of function arguments (w

robison at uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu robison at uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
Sat Sep 27 08:05:00 AEST 1986



[I tried to mail this response, but wasn't able.]

If you look at page 212 of Kernighan and Ritchie, (Appendix A, section 16) it
notes that the order of evaluation is right to left on the PDP-11, and left to
to right on the others.  I presume the others are the Honeywell 6000, IBM 370,
and Interdata 8/32 which are mentioned in Appendix A.  Of course that was almost
a decade ago.

Arch D. Robison					robison at uiucdcs
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



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