Please change the name Lassi Kortela (21 Oct 2022 11:12 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(21 Oct 2022 11:54 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Lassi Kortela
(21 Oct 2022 13:03 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(21 Oct 2022 13:16 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Lassi Kortela
(21 Oct 2022 14:31 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(21 Oct 2022 15:00 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Lassi Kortela
(21 Oct 2022 16:25 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(21 Oct 2022 17:43 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(21 Oct 2022 18:10 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Lassi Kortela
(21 Oct 2022 22:32 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(22 Oct 2022 08:03 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Lassi Kortela
(22 Oct 2022 11:30 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(22 Oct 2022 11:39 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(22 Oct 2022 11:53 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Feeley
(22 Oct 2022 12:19 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(22 Oct 2022 12:29 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Lassi Kortela
(22 Oct 2022 13:17 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(22 Oct 2022 13:26 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Feeley
(21 Oct 2022 13:17 UTC)
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Re: Please change the name
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(21 Oct 2022 13:26 UTC)
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IMHO a language feature to evaluate side-effecting expressions in arbitrary order is not a good idea. I can see the didactic value of such a construct in an algorithms textbook, but for real programs it's best to leave it to the compiler. The compiler's optimizer should be free to re-order or parallelize expressions whenever it can prove the effect stays the same. Giving programmers an easy-to-access construct with a short name to say "the order doesn't matter" (with no compiler check that this claim is true) will do its part to encourage the kind of micro-optimization culture that is endemic in C and C++. It leads to bugs and obscure code. Scheme should have fewer gotchas, not more. I can't stop the community from promulgating such a construct, but I'd like to ask that the name be changed to something less encouraging that more obviously says "here be dragons".