On 21/11/2002 09:49:59 "Jonathan E. Paton" wrote: [snip: order of evaluation] > >Now, many "Perl" experts will have experience in other languages, such as C >where this is suicidal for portable code. C doesn't specify order, so that >the order of evaluation can be changed for optimisation. >
I had to fix code once which behaved differently when compiled with different C compilers, because different compilers chose different order of evaluation (as they are entitled to do). It was NOT fun (not even in C). -- Csaba Ráduly, Software Engineer Sophos Anti-Virus email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sophos..com US Support: +1 888 SOPHOS 9 UK Support: +44 1235 559933
