From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-10-11T02:31:19+09:00
Subject: Re: a strange construct (which lead to unspecified behavior AFAIK)

Hi,

At Fri, 11 Oct 2002 02:15:25 +0900,
Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
> I do think one can not expect it to work how it's intented. It's not
> guaranteed that ny-- is evaluated before it is accessed in zds.

It's defined by the C specification.  Left hand side expression
of logical operator must be evaluated before right hand side.

> Anyway there are other places in the Windows code which rely heaviest
> on internal MSVC stuff. This is an unecessary complicated and fragile
> design

Agree.

> I don't know if this is the right place to discuss that, if you do
> think there is a better place, please let me know.

I supect ruby-core.

-- 
Nobu Nakada