Order of Evaluation (plus ?'s)

Wm E Davidsen Jr davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM
Wed Nov 22 02:07:08 AEST 1989


In article <12570034 at hpclwjm.HP.COM> walter at hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray) writes:

| There are times when the parentheses aren't even needed.  ANSI C guarantees
| that
|    p = q + r + s;
| will behave exactly the same as
|    p = (q + r) + s;

  Could you quote sections on that? I don't seem to find the part which
says that expressions are evaluated left to right.
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