Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
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For two, what problem did Andrei point out? Order of evaluation of
function arguments? On the contrary, he said "now that order of
evaluation will be defined to be left-to-right in D, the semantics
would be quite the same". Your code is what you'd have to use in D1,
but in D2, the simpler version would suffice.
What do you understand by the combination of "now" and "will be"?
I understood that he was speaking either sarcastically or hypothetically.
Or can you find any official statement of this change, let alone a
rationale for it?
Stewart.