SIMPLE: A language-independent tree IR

Paul Koning pkoning@equallogic.com
Thu Jan 3 10:29:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
 Geoff> You're probably thinking of

 Geoff> T = (f() + g()) compared to T = (f(), g())

 Geoff> in the first one, the compiler is (probably) permitted to call
 Geoff> g before f, but not in the second.

The comma operator rule is pretty strange, given that the third
example:

	T = foo (f(), g(x))
(i.e., comma a actual argument separator) DOES allow g to be called
before f...

       paul



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