From: Charles Martin <charles@chasm.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Evaluation Order
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 18:06:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010609175833.03bdda20@chasm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000901c0f13b$f981c610$210148bf@dylan>
>The results of these two operations, integers, are arithmetically commutable
>under addition. But what isn't commutable is the order in which these
>operations occur....
>
>What is needed is some specification that indicates temporal preference, and
>then the type checking mechanism must be enhanced to keep temporal order.
>Most programs in OCaml probably have no preference, and in fact, a sense of
>order is strongly discouraged in most FPL's -- e.g., Haskell.
The specification that indicates temporal preference is
let <first> in let <second> in ...
Argument evaluation order and temporal preference are two orthogonal concepts and should not be conflated. I support unspecified argument evaluation order.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-10 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-09 15:59 David McClain
2001-06-09 20:17 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-06-09 23:12 ` David McClain
2001-06-09 23:28 ` David McClain
2001-06-10 1:04 ` Dave Mason
2001-06-10 2:25 ` David McClain
2001-06-11 13:03 ` Dave Mason
2001-06-12 17:55 ` John Max Skaller
2001-06-13 16:54 ` Frederick Smith
2001-06-13 21:43 ` John Max Skaller
2001-06-10 1:06 ` Charles Martin [this message]
2001-06-10 2:27 ` David McClain
2001-06-10 11:18 ` Tore Lund
2001-06-10 13:11 ` Tore Lund
2001-06-10 14:31 ` John Max Skaller
2001-06-12 15:12 ` Pierre Weis
2001-06-10 10:40 ` Joerg Czeranski
2001-06-10 14:06 ` John Max Skaller
2001-06-11 12:59 ` Dave Mason
2001-06-12 17:34 ` John Max Skaller
2001-06-10 13:47 ` John Max Skaller
2001-06-10 16:47 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-06-10 17:27 ` Dave Mason
2001-06-12 16:10 ` John Max Skaller
2001-06-09 23:19 ` John Max Skaller
2001-06-10 2:44 David McClain
2001-06-10 2:48 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-06-10 5:51 ` David McClain
2001-06-10 17:59 Damien Doligez
2001-06-10 18:28 ` Dave Mason
2001-06-15 17:00 Manuel Fahndrich
2009-06-14 16:36 evaluation order Christophe Raffalli
2009-06-14 19:40 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2009-06-14 21:12 ` Christophe Raffalli
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